


Weaving with Recycled Paper
Earlier in the session my classes worked in teams to cover paper bags that I had cut open with tempera paint. We used rollers and brushes to cover every inch of the brown paper. This week I introduced chalk pastels and encouraged them to draw patterns and rub color...
Celebrating Spring: Recycled Collage (glue/paper/glue)
In this project we used all recycled materials to create an art project with lots of color and fun detail! For our base we used pre cut cereal boxes which provided a nice stiff surface. Any kind of recycled cardboard will work great. After our background was colored...
Celebrating Spring: Accordion Garden Collage
Thank you Make and Takes for such a successful spring project! The first step to the accordion garden was to draw on pre-cut flowers with oil pastel. Prior to the start of class I prepared three different shapes and sizes of flowers using scissors and a flower punch....