Halloween Flubber

Halloween Flubber

Flubber is seriously one of my favorite mediums to present in my classroom. Everyone loves flubber because it has such a unique feeling and behaves like no other medium. It moves like it’s name. It’s a little squishy, bouncy, stretchy. There is a feedback...
Paper Roll Sculpture and Flubber

Paper Roll Sculpture and Flubber

Studio Sprout strives to be a good steward of the planet by reducing our footprint in a variety of ways including utilizing recycled materials in our projects. We kicked off the fall session which will focus on exploring 3-D art with Paper Roll Sculptures made from...
Spots and Dots

Spots and Dots

This week’s class started with sitting in a circle and reading the book Put Me In the Zoo by Robert Lopshire. The project for the day was centered around printing spots and dots in an array of colors. I played off the book’s main character who can change...
Beaded Pasta Sculptures and More!

Beaded Pasta Sculptures and More!

This week we explored beading with some hand dyed past and pipe cleaners. I encouraged students to get sculptural using a piece of peg board along with their beaded pasta wires. For most of the students this was their first time ever beading and they enjoyed...
Foam Paint and Flubber

Foam Paint and Flubber

This week was too much fun! For our wet medium project we experimented with foam paint, powder tempera, and liquid watercolor. We also introduced flubber, a slow moving liquid that can be modeled and manipulated similar to play dough. Both projects were a hit with...