So...at the BEGINNING of the school year, I got the idea for this collaborative project...and, here we are MIDWAY through the school year and I'm finally assembling and sharing it with you. Story of my life, y'all.
At the start of the school year, I dyed a bunch of clothes pins by placing them in a bin of watered down paint. I later learned that food coloring works well also. I dyed them red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.
When the students came in, we read The Dot (yes, this was our Dot Day attempt!) and we spoke about all of the things that we are. "I am creative. I am amazing. I am silly. I am funny." You get the idea.
I had the kids get two colorful clothes pins (any color the wanted) and one plain one. On the colorful clothes pin, they were to write their name on one and a word that described them on another.
On the plain ones, I had them with monochromatic Sharpies and create a design. I did this project with my first and second grade students who have 30 minute art classes. My third and fourth graders, who have an hour, did a different collaborative project:
You can find out details on this project here. I at least managed to get this project finished and hung at the start of the year!
After the kids were done with the clothes pins, I had them sort them by color. Then I clipped them around 9" cardboard pizza rounds. I then painted the center black and used the kids' painted papers to create the I am... in the middle. Initially I was going to hang these in the hallway but I was afraid they would get damaged without a watchful eye on them.
AND because they are so stinkin' pretty I wanted to be able to see them all the time! I used command hooks and yarn to hang them above my window. They did keep rotating which would have been fine if I'd had the kids draw on BOTH sides of the clothes pin (which you might wanna do if you do this project). To keep them forward facing, I simply hot glued them together where you see them touching/overlapping a bit.
Another happy rainbow addition to the art room that I'm happy to finally have on display!
You are my favorite teacher to follow. I love all your ideas and it is so clear that you love what you do. Thank you for being a blessing to so many teachers, and for all of us new art teachers out there....You have saved my career.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYour passion for art and your students show through so much in what you post! I love this Idea and will borrow this idea also! thank you Paula
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ReplyDeleteYour site is always filled with so many different creative ideas! Your ideas help to inspire me to be more creative with my art room and my students! Thank you for inspiring me! How did you make your melting Dali wall clock? I love it! I taught my third grade students a lesson on Surrealism last year and would've loved to have had that hanging on my wall!
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