Here I blog about school life in an art classroom. I love to report about lessons we do, displays and shows we have, and general education at the elementary level.
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Sunday, November 1, 2015
Halloween Haunted Houses
This was a school wide assignment for grades three through six .
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| example started by student, abandoned, finished by me |
We started with the idea of drawing the house. They were good at adding the architectural details. The classes could look at a 14 inch high sculpture of a Victorian house with a turret. They also passed around a rubber stamp block that had an image of a old house. They see enough Halloween images in real life, so they had no trouble being inspired to create the atmosphere of the holiday around the yard.
They kept track of the number of minutes they worked on the piece. If over sixty minutes, they converted it to hours.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Update on the Apple Slice Sculptures
Four sections of third grade and we got quite a lot accomplished on the apple slice sculptures.
Getting the first coil rolled.
Medium tightness on the round quilled strip of paper.

painted cores, tape wrapped, or stapled cardstock in ivory or pale yellow
Many already have an excellent start.
one more class and they should be done.
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Second Graders Work on Leaf Sculptures
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Apple Slice Sculpture
I found this idea on Pinterest, but the connection just went to a broken link. Just went by the photo and started with a rolled up cylinder for the center on my example. For the classes of third grade, I let them chose from cardboard tubes or stapled card stock.
We are collecting sticks and crimping the paper for the apple skins.
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