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Weaving Sleeping Mats for Homeless</h2>
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We have adapted to weaving because it is much easier for our middle schoolers to accomplish than crocheting mats together. We made one mat in about 2.5 weeks. I'll attempt to give you the specifics in case you want to do this with your schools.</h3>
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<br />ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-10677655896151853032017-02-14T07:58:00.001-08:002017-02-15T16:28:59.677-08:00We are making recycled sleeping mats for the homeless <div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Making Plarn</b> (plastic yarn) from recycled bags. Here's a how to:</div>
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I've been using the cardboard center of the paper towels we use in the classroom to house the plarn. I cut a notch on one side to start and just keep wrapping. We are using gift bags to house the plarn, crochet hook (size P) and our start to the mat. It keeps the plarn from rolling across the room. We plan to make the mats about 30"x72"</div>
<br />ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-22547863180007851012015-07-24T14:55:00.001-07:002015-07-25T12:04:53.190-07:00Summer Camp at CCAA - Clay Houses<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d4oycMqEIkM/VbKwMtLfUII/AAAAAAAABWk/ezrByzAnbKs/s1600/SlabHouses2015.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d4oycMqEIkM/VbKwMtLfUII/AAAAAAAABWk/ezrByzAnbKs/s640/SlabHouses2015.jpg" width="632" /></a><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">For the past 2 weeks at <a href="http://www.chestercountyarts.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Chester County Art Association</span></a> in West Chester, PA we have been playing in the "mud" or really clay! We had 10 super campers age 7-10 who learned the 3 basic hand building techniques.... 1. Slab, 2. Coil and 3. Pinch. Campers made practice projects to build up to the main attraction of clay slab house. First we made a small coil pot using swirls and other shapes to create interest. Second we made pinch pot animals and learned about the all important "vent hole". Third we made small slab platters that we wedged white and brown clay together to create a cool marbling effect. Along the way "small stuff" was created as well such as slab tiles, necklace charms and fairies. Then we ended the projects with the slab houses and incorporating all three techniques together. And they are all FABULOUS!!! My kids did a great job and were super creative. Proud art teacher for sure:) Please check out their work below.</span><br />
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<br />ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-40390159618823143392015-02-26T11:48:00.000-08:002015-02-26T11:48:02.311-08:00Empty Bowls Fund Raiser Paper and Clay Bowls!<b>I just L-O-V-E these bowls</b> we made with our middle school students. Some students made paper maché bowls shown on the right and painted them with watercolors in cool designs while others made small clay bowls on the left and demonstrated their slip trailing techniques on them. Miss Ann and I both made the large bowls and serving platter in the center to raffle off to our staff so we could donate money as well as the bowls to such a great event in our community. The Empty Bowls organization is in communities across America and more. They hold events that help raise money for our hungry and give away a bowl to those who gave as a remembrance. Here's a link if your school or organization is interested in participating. <u><b>http://www.emptybowls.net/</b></u><br />
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<br />ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-2514423822408058302015-01-24T14:23:00.000-08:002015-01-24T14:47:00.540-08:00Middle School ART!<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9TK2Y6ZYbPk/VMQZwInWJ0I/AAAAAAAABTY/pUee6SFUA8Y/s1600/6th%2BGrade.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9TK2Y6ZYbPk/VMQZwInWJ0I/AAAAAAAABTY/pUee6SFUA8Y/s1600/6th%2BGrade.jpg" height="325" width="400" /></a>In <b>6th Grade</b> we have been concentrating mostly on RED CLAY! Students have made slab toad houses, experimented with underglazing techniques on small bowls, made a winter plate and even explored their heraldry with colored pencil and calligraphy.<br />
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<b>8th Grade Traditional </b>Class has been busy these first two semesters. Projects included portraits, still life drawings and foil drawings, printmaking etchings and finally a sewn marblized paper book.<br />
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<br />ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-66511684439286063232014-06-18T07:57:00.001-07:002014-06-18T07:57:23.076-07:00Pre-School Young Rembrandts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pre-School Young Rembrandts Program was a great experience for these little people. We just went step by step using shapes they know and love together. They were so excited that their drawings looked like the animals we were trying to create! Afterwards we used crayons to color our creations. Aren't they wonderful! Yeah Preschoolers:)<br />
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<br />ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-14700410124229487212014-06-15T18:06:00.001-07:002014-06-15T18:06:44.357-07:00Middle School Art LTS Adventures<h4>
I've had the pleasure of teaching young men and women at a local middle school since February this year. Here are some of the projects we created.</h4>
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Warhol's Ads to Art - One of my favorite projects to do with young people. This group was the 8th grade Traditional Art Class. Instructions were to take a grocery item and make it into art while rotating, repeating and resizing. We also worked some color theory into the project as well!</h3>
<br />ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-24279151457633425302013-12-25T12:43:00.001-08:002013-12-25T12:43:18.784-08:00Let's Play Clay! <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Jy8lc5WO77M/UrtCqeARhyI/AAAAAAAABJs/1B0_uvg-Hrk/s1600/LetsPlayClayArt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Jy8lc5WO77M/UrtCqeARhyI/AAAAAAAABJs/1B0_uvg-Hrk/s640/LetsPlayClayArt.jpg" width="640" /></a>Our class had four wonderfully talented young ladies ranging in age from Kindergarten to Fourth Grade. We definitely played with clay and had lots of fun for this 9-week course at Chester County Art Association! Students explored all kinds of handbuilding techniques. Check out their works below:)<br />
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<br />ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-81795625260176687082013-10-29T17:27:00.002-07:002013-11-12T14:23:44.227-08:00Fall Session 2<h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This session we have one Kindergartener, six First Graders and one Third Grader. Aren't their drawings fabulous?! </span></h3>
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<br />ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-41791872240062679062013-10-17T08:10:00.001-07:002013-10-17T08:11:49.694-07:00Young Rembrandts Fall Session 1<h2>
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<br />ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-31838008098111649292013-08-24T13:24:00.001-07:002013-08-24T13:29:17.057-07:00Around the World Summer Camp at CCAA<h4 class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #073763;">We finished the last week of summer art camp! This week we went "Around the World" and visited Egypt, Africa, Japan, Peru and Mexico. The kids used clay, printmaking, drawing, painting, weaving and more. So much fun we even had a little dance party break before our ARTshow.</span></h4>
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<br />ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-27304054484534437662013-07-25T12:51:00.001-07:002013-07-25T12:51:28.715-07:00Handprint Fish at StoryART! Mommy and Me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-2832617065924047772013-06-09T18:34:00.000-07:002013-06-09T18:34:09.039-07:00Adventures of Middle School Art as a LT Sub [Part 2]We finished up our Peruvian Weavings and Incorporations and have moved on to Asia. Our concentration is on Koi fish and their symbolism. Students first started with a wet on wet cool colored watercolor background. Next we practiced drawing koi fish and eventually worked our way up to drawing 2 fish with one of them turning to transfer onto our foam etching plate. We had a very messy fun time printing our fish all over our watercolor backgrounds and then enhancing them with warm colored pencils and at least one symbol.<br />
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The other project we are working on is a one-point perspective glue pastel drawing of Russian Onion Domes. Students had to have at least one building on each side of the road and one at the top of the road. This is a hard concept but we did great!<br />
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<br />ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-33558705420174167562013-05-10T14:19:00.001-07:002013-06-10T18:20:40.681-07:00Open Mixed Media and Pottery Class at CCAAOur weekend class has turned out to be full of very creative kids! They are really interested in a variety of art making techniques. They have all tried out pottery both hand-building and on the wheel. Other areas they tried were Foam Etching Prints, Bookmaking, Upcycled Magazine Frames, and Peruvian Weavings. I'll post photos as we go...<br />
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<br />ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-37844286255611893992013-04-27T17:38:00.001-07:002013-05-10T15:14:18.409-07:00Adventures of Middle School Art as a LT Sub<i>Life as a LTS for middle school art on a cart has it's logistic challenges as well as it's adventures. </i><br />
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The students had already started sketching out their <b>Egyptian Cartouches</b> when I started in March. They had to either draw an Egyptian God or a human turned towards the cartouche with their name in hyroglyphics. They finished them off with details and colored pencil. <br />
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Now we are finishing up <b>Peruvian Weavings</b> that we are incorporating into a background on which they think they might want to use or take their weaving. We learned how the men usually do the actual weaving, the women dye the materials and examined their wonderful patterns.<br />
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<br />ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-13629440900450193962013-04-06T11:22:00.004-07:002013-04-06T11:25:37.405-07:00PreSchool ART! Week 4<h2>
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After we finished up our heartstring project we started a couple weeks ago with beads, we made Andy Warhol inspired handprints with marker and paint using a grid just like Andy. We also looked at Georgia O'Keeffe flowers and made our own using watercolor and printmaking together. The children also sharpened all the crayons into wax paper and we ironed them to look like stained glass window. Lastly, we had a choice to make a butterfly or bird using feathers, marker, paper and watercolor. Like I said, we were BUSY:) </h4>
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ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-15461960856512898462013-03-16T12:27:00.000-07:002013-03-16T12:27:00.494-07:00Pre-School ART! Week 2<h4>
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<strong> Today we started PreSchool ART! at the West Chester CCAA. We read "Fiona loves the night" by Patricia MacLachlan and Emily MacLachlan Charest ; illustrated by Amanda Shepherd and sang the "Lion Hunt." In the story it talks about an owl, so we did 2 owl projects and started a dream project to finish up next week. The first owl project was an owl mask, the second we learned how to draw an owl and then we etched our drawing on foam and printed them! The kids loved the printmaking because they got to use the roller and could make more than one print:) Check out their cute owls!</strong><br />
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ArtMommiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990790085011221029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119242913061494011.post-35402316851690489962013-03-09T11:23:00.000-08:002013-03-09T11:23:51.304-08:00Mommy and Me Shamrocks<h4>
<a href="http://plus.syndetics.com/index.php?isbn=0807575968/mc.gif&client=chesterp&upc=&oclc=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Cover image" border="0" class="syn_image" src="http://plus.syndetics.com/index.php?isbn=0807575968/mc.gif&client=chesterp&upc=&oclc=" /></a> Wednesday's Mommy and Me class at Exton CCAA was all about getting ready for spring! We read <b>"Spring things" by Bob Raczka ; illustrated by Judy Stead. Our craft was a shamrock. To make the shamrock we recycled a tp roll and magazine pages. First we cut the tp roll into 4 equal rings. 3 of the rings we covered totally with magazine cuttings that were mostly green with glue. The last ring we mushed and wrapped the magazine cuttings totally around it for the stem so it looked like a rectangle. After we had all the tp rings covered, we shaped them into hearts and a stem finally hot gluing them together to look like our photo. Lots of fun! Check out the example and make one too.</b></h4>
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Mark Teague. We also sang the "Lion Hunt" before we made our
Valentine's Day Heart Strings craft. We made our craft with recycled tp rolls,
red paint, string and beads. Aren't they fabulous! They will make great
window decorations year-round:)<br />
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<a href="http://www.carlemuseum.org/images/uploads/EricCarleMuseum/shop/8934_MD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" id="il_fi" src="http://www.carlemuseum.org/images/uploads/EricCarleMuseum/shop/8934_MD.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="155" /></a>We made Sparkly Snowflakes at Mommy and Me this week! First we read a wonderful children's book "Snow Sounds" by David Johnson and sang the Lion Hunt song. Then we talked about how to create our snowflakes for different level abilities. The simplest and quickest version was to paint the pre-glued fancy Popsicle sticks white with a Q-tip and then dip in silver glitter. To step it up a notch we had markers, paper shapes and sequins to add to this version. Check out how wonderfully creative our 5-year olds and under got with this project:) And I'd like to thank our volunteer Miss Betty for all her help and love she gives our little ones in class.</h4>
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