Kinders and wire

The kindergartners worked with wire and drew their creations. It was interesting to see them replicate the

3-d sculpture onto a 2-d piece of paper.

"Mine's a necklace. I think I'll give it to my mom, after i wear it a while."

"I traced around the stuff."

Construction center

"It's a teeny flower in a vase. The vase is a lid from a water bottle. It was hard to make the flower stand, I had to hold it a long time."

Fiber

Two second graders made matching purses, collaborating on the design. "We copycatted each other!"

In the same class, another boy created a wallet, "I made paper dollars and a pretend ID."

One of the best things about TAB is seeing students create art about the things that interest them.

"This is a family. There's the mom, the big sister, the little sister, and the boy. The little sister is going to swim, and the big sister is going to church."

"I made my name into a picture."

"She's a mouse, with a flower in her hair."

"This is batdog. He's batman's dog. And look! Batman's riding on his tail!"

"Yep. It's a finger puppet, I sewed it, but it needed a stand, so I made this hand out of cardboard."

"It's a ferris wheel, it goes to our amusedment park, and it really turns! The people go upside down, even."

"This is the ice cream stand."

 "This is a safe house. It protects you from the bad guys. There's a lock on the doors."

It's hard to see from these photos, but this safehouse shows a great deal of engineering ingenuity. The artist came up with different attachment techniques.



The 2011/2012 school year has begun!

It's the fourth week of the school year, and most classes have the collage, drawing, construction, and fiber centers available.

I was very impressed by the tower created by a second grader using no tape! Below is a close up of how he attached the flag pole.

The beauty of young children is that they can create without the stifling self-conciousness that the rest of us suffer from. This was created at the construction center.

The first grader that created the two pocket tooth fairy pillow seen here is now a second grader with even more ambitious sewing aspirations. He created this multi-sectioned wallet after drawing up a detailed plan.

Having found a random letter in the collage box, this first grader added details using a ruler, markers, scrap paper, and a "string that was just there on the ground! It was just sitting there, teacher, so I 'accided to glue it on my page! It looks great, dontcha think?!"

I love what this first grader created using only glue, paper, and markers.