1. Drawing with all materials available
2. Collage
3. Painting with tempera only on recycled papers (our recycled papers are unclaimed/no name artwork)
4. Community Weaving Board
5. Building Bricks (legos)
6. Architecture
7. Open studio (teacher selected art traps)
Children are allowed to choose from the above list. They should have their sketchbooks with them at all times. I have some step by step sheets for students in case they need them. I hope you find them helpful and can get full links here: http://bit.ly/twistbracelet and http://bit.ly/CHarperstuffie
Our Art studio has 10 iPad minis and we have "sets" set up for Stop-Motion. Key is to NOT MOVE THE CAMERA! They are exploring and learning. Next year, this will be a studio we open early. I love the natural collaboration that takes place.
STEAM is a mix of one person hands-on activities from a wonderful grant that we received from the Pattonville Education Foundation. We have a light board, magnablocks, emido building materials and other great things from Amazon. In STEAM and ARCHITECTURE, students are supposed to photograph their creations. From our grant, we added building bricks (imitation Legos) and they are a hit! I would highly suggest purchasing the window and wheel packs. I love seeing what my students have created!
FIBER ARTS we have friendship bracelets and hand-sewing stuffies.
I never really "close" drawing, painting and collage, but there is a natural transition to the "new" pre-set materials that make me feel less like a cleaning lady.
