"These are pets that I made, and this is a carrier for them."




Two first graders collaborated on this large creation, "It's a transformer alien. A two-headed alien transformer car."




First graders love using grown up tools, like staplers, and often incorporate them into their artwork. Here, a young artist uses the staples to help create a race track, "I got the idea because I wanted to shock my mom. I knew if she saw it she would be super excited--shocked--about my project. I like my track and I wanted to very very shock my mom three times."

"I'm just making scary aliens."

"It's a fuzzy brown bear with a baby. I can't wait 'til the fiber center opens up, so I can make my creations come to life."

"It's a covered wagon, made out of paper."

"It's different shapes cut out. I want to make a bunch of these, I think they'd look really pretty."

"I made this mermaid with paper. I couldn't find skin color, so I used orange."

A second grader created this robot, as a departure from some of the robots he made as a second grader, "This is a baseball robot. That's his bat, and he can hit the ball EVERY time! He has a baseball hat too."

"I wanted to make a necklace, but then I would have to cut it, so it's a crown instead."

Welcome to the 2010/11 school year!

Things have been going well. We've only got one center running; the drawing center--but that's enough to get the kids' creativity going. Many students are interested in honing their drawing skills, like the fifth grader who drew this dinosaur.

An exciting addition to the art room this year; an overhead projector along with a document camera! Now I can show students images from the computer, as well as do demos that EVERYONE can see.