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Author Archives: Marcia Beckett
Clay Hearts
Easy Clay Hearts for Kindergarten This project teaches how to roll coils and basic glazing techniques. 1. Step one, Demonstrate rolling coils.2. Form the coils on a pre-drawn heart handout. Press firmly to adhere together. A little bit of water may be added as needed.3. Teacher pokes hole through top.4. After firing, glaze with clay glazes. Limit the color choices for the little ones.5. Tie yarn and raffia through the hole. Voila! A nice little ornament or wall hanging for … Read more…
Friday Shout outs!
I saw this on someone else’s blog. I will give a few shout outs. First, to the blog that has given me the most traffic this week: Mary Making! Next, a shout out to a blog I really really love to read: Little Imperfections And finally, a fun photograph. Here is my baby Daria and my dog Linus. A photo captured at the perfect moment.
New Glue bottles= art teacher excitement!
Any art teacher out there will be able to relate to the excitement of receiving a box of supplies you’ve ordered! It’s like Christmas time!! I am so excited about this new idea I read about on the Getty Art teacher listserve. Clogged glue bottles were the bane of my existence. The little glue bottles with the orange tops constantly got clogged and stuck and you just could not get the glue out without a long and yucky soaking process. … Read more…
Alaskan Masks
In November the students are learning about the characteristics and functions of Alaskan masks as well as the cultural traditions of Native Alaskans. They are making a 3-D mask using typical characteristics— animal or human features, fur, feathers, appendages, hoops around the mask.
Another watercolor attempt
Finished Pocket Pots
Here are a few of the final glazed pocket pots. Kids were in grades K-6. It was an afterschool class. For full directions, see earlier post about this project. Yay! I love them!
Ghosts in a Bedroom
This was another good lesson I found on someone’s blog. Claim it if it was yours.. sorry can’t remember who. It was an old Halloween lesson.
in my classroom
Kids painting in my classroom
Turkeys!
Turkeys!I found this lesson on Mrs. Art Teacher’s blog: http://applesloveorangespdx.blogspot.com/search/label/turkey Thanks for the fun idea!! I don’t normally do crafty-type projects with my art classes, but these were so cute. At the beginning of the year, the kindergartners need a lot of practice cutting, so this project helped with that skill. 1. I had predrawn various sized circles and then photocopied them onto construction paper.2. The children chose 5 circles and cut them out. I passed them out one at … Read more…
My art is imperfect.
I am not a sewer, let’s just put that right out there. I think it is so fun though to use the sewing machine as a tool for collages. I just started doing it and wow, is it so much more fun to use a sewing machine that actually works as opposed to a junky one that does not work half the time. My art is imperfect. There is no way around it. I can’t sew a straight line, I … Read more…
Scrap Faces
To connect with the Science, the Primaries are learning about how artists can use recycled and cast off materials to make art. We are watching a video about an artist who goes to the scrap and junkyard to find art materials. We are making our own mask made out of scraps: bottle caps, wood pieces, plastic parts. Reading Rainbow Stay Away From the Junkyard hilarious! We used these donated medicine lids.
Dreamcatcher ornament from the other class
This is a dreamcatcher ornament that will be sent to the Governor’s Mansion in Madison, WI for the Christmas tree. A group of kids in a 3rd/4th grade class made this.
Art Divas
Someone else posted about this, but I think it is so cool! This is a group of 6 women who make art and exhibit together, called the Art Divas. ART DIVAS
