Very Sad About My Camera

I'm very sad to say but I lost my camera in October when I did an art exhibit in the city. So I lost all my pictures of the October projects. Tomorrow when I return to school I will take some new photos of what was created in October and some recent in November. The quality might not be so great because I may have to take them from my camera phone or buy a disposable. I may have to wait till Christmas for Santa to buy me a new one. But promise to update this week. Hope anyone who is checkin in is enjoying what pictures are up now. Till then.

Ms. Sarah

More In September

Green Paintings
Inspired by Green. We used any green colored materials to make a collage of green
Green paint, yarn, ribbon, glitter and glue( we painted with feathers)

Pointillism

Learning about Van Gough

Creating paintings with dots of color - Children drew pictures with chalk then filled in with dots of color. Chalk, Q-tips, Paint and Paper

Scarecrows

Paper cutouts, Yafi, Buttons, Crayons, Googly Eyes, Glue and Colored Felt.

Our Town Murals

In this class we spoke about where we live and what's around us everyday. And created a very colorful mural. Butcher paper, markers, crayons, scraps, magazines any mix media. Great group project!

My Bulletin Board

Fall Into Art. I was nervous this was my first bulletin in my new school and wanted to inspire and impress. I used the scarecrows my kids created and had a great idea to press real leaves on contact paper.

Owls

Woo Woo - Paper Towel Rolls, Egg Cartons, Feathers and Paint

This project was so much fun. I was wondering what to do with all my left over egg cartons and paper towel rolls. I found out that if you cut them they make great owl eyes.

I cut out the body of the owl out of paper bags almost the same shape a snowman. I had the kids paint the body yellow, orange or brown. Glue on or paint eyes and added feathers. * You can also use a real branch and glue it to the bottom to perch your owl on.

Fall Trees- Blow Art

Straws

The children cut out trees, pasted on paper then dropped a small amount of paint on the paper and used straws to blow the paint around. Just be careful for kids blowing to hard and getting dizzy remind them to be gentle.

Tissue Paper Leaves

Great project for fine motor skills. Children cut out leaves, used tissue paper and yarn to decorate.

Pipe Cleaner Sculpture

This project will have the teachers talking! I had a nice crowd watching this project. Usually the kids are little chatter boxes when working. But I was amazed at the silence in the room. They were so into and involved in this project. I brought styrofoam and cut it in squares for the base, pipe cleaners, pasta noodles, beads and cherrios. They created wired sculptures and loved this project so much they didn't want to leave. What was really great was that I asked each of them what their sculpture was and some answered, " A park in Brooklyn, my family, tinkerbell, ballet, trees and my house." So much fun!

Art Class In September

 Introducing Color

Sunflowers
-Paper plates, Tissue Paper, Glue, Bleans or Sunflower Seeds

Patterns On Leaves
-Mable Leaf cutouts, markers ( we looked at art with different patterns)

  

Colors and Shapes
-Color Mixing Using sponges to mix primary colors
Inspired By

Mixed Media

Creating art with different materials. Alumunium foil as our canvas, rips of tissue paper, ribbon, watery glue and glitter.

Marble Rolling

Inspired by artist Jackson Pollack

Rolling marbles in paint -Marbles and Tempera Paint

Dedicated To The Kids

I decided to dedicate a blog showing pictures of the art projects I work on with kids. They truly are inspirational and keep me focused. Working with children can be very rewarding. I've been an artist since I was 6 years old and really got serious about my work at age 18. After having my daughter I got really involved in the school baking cupcakes and being a secretary taking minutes at  school meetings. The program found out I was an artist and was in need of a art program in the school. Every since then I've had the opportunity to work as an art teacher in several programs in New York City and have been teaching for over 7 years and love it!

It's always challenging! Some kids at first are not interested in art, some are, some need a self esteem boost, some have special needs and sometimes if not the kids it's the parents. Some parents forget that art is important and how it is to be a kid or need to be reminded of how the world looks through child's eyes. I think I have the best job in the world being able to inspire, teach, create, learn and have fun. But most of all it's just great being a mom.

Hope you enjoy!
Sarah Aponte