Big score at the dollar store!

I found sponges, clothespins and clean squeeze bottles for the studio today at the dollar store!  School days are just around the corner!  

Hope everyone is enjoying these unseasonably cool temperatures!  

We ordered the umbrellas!

We placed the orders for the umbrellas for the Umbrellas for Peace project today!  A huge thank you to the Pecatonica Education Foundation and Ms. Ginny Meyers of Gambino Real Estate for your generous donations to push this project forward!    The excitement continues to build!  We hope to have enough funds to purchase more paints as well!

Yes, Mom! I ate my artwork!

Kindergardeners had a great time with my annual "eat your artwork" color wheel lesson!

Students watched a 3 minute YouTube video about the color wheels before we dove into experimenting with red, blue and yellow frosting mixing on vanilla wafers.  Lots of excitement for this lesson today!  What colors can you make in between these colors?

Some kids just couldn't wait to dig in!

We even had some future kindergarten 2014-15 students visit today!  What a fun day to visit!

Now onto cleaning and packing up the studio for next school year.  Unknotting paint smocks anyone?

Guest origami artist today!

We had a very special guest origami artist today during Miss Hoffman's class. Did I mention he's a fellow student?

These children are eager to learn how to make ninja stars from another third grader!  This is what I love about TAB!  He was able to take a small group of us (me included as I am origami challenged) and teach us how to make ninja stars!  Other students were able to finish their projects while we learned a new art of paper folding.  

Last Special Group

Today was my last special 4th grade group meeting.  We finished reading From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler this past week and ended the session with soap sculptures!  I apologize I was too busy sculpting with the kids to get any pictures today.  My room smelled lovely for the afternoon.  Ivory soap is soft enough to sculpt even with basic cutlery.

Ending of our art party!

Mrs. Wanke's class finished their art party artworks with splatter painting today!

It was splatastic!

Braids Against Bullies & Umbrellas for Peace Updates

Today Pecatonica stood up to bullying by wearing Braids Against Bullies!

We also had two staff painting days for the Umbrellas for Peace project!  They are beautiful!  We have some very talented artists on our staff!