Week of 3/3/2025 - UTK, Kinder and 1st grade - Week 2

This week students returned to create sculptures, create Alma Thomas inspired art and paint their clay works that were fired!

UTK students created patterns on jumbo popsicle sticks using markers - I love seeing how confident they are at this time of the year having practiced patterns for several months now! We looked at the works of artists that use popsicle sticks to create their works such as Randy Tipe, David Hrobowski and Ellen Xu to see how they use this medium to create the most amazing works!

Students arranged and glued their ticks together. I hot glued a wooden dowel to their works, drilled a hole in wooden cubes and hot glued the dowel into them. It's nice to see how unique each work is! 

Kinder students created art inspired by artist Alma Thomas. We looked at several examples of her work and discussed what a trailblazer she was! Students first create three circles and five vertical lines on a 11"X14" brown tag board. They then used a pencil top eraser to dip into tempera paint to create marks inside the spaces. We also left the pencil lines showing just like the artist did - students asked me several times if we were going to erase the lines as they are so used to doing this for other lessons! I love how colorful their works look!

 

1st graders returned to paint their clay pieces - I demonstrated how to dip their paint brushes in acrylic paint and take the time to paint the sides and top and leave the bottom part with their names as is. I also encouraged students to look at the colors available and have a plan as to what color they wanted in which areas.