"I used the shapes in this tracer to make a tiger!"

"Well, first I made it with glue and cardboard at the 'struction center. Then I painted it with the white stuff [gesso], then I had to wait. I didn't want to wait; I wanted to take it home, but I waited. And this week I painted it, and glued the puffy eyeballs on. I'm glad I waited 'cause now it's all colorful and stuff."

"It's a bedroom, here's the bed and pillow, with blankets. The bottle is her garbage can, see? I put little scraps of paper in it for it could be the garbage. And here's a lamp, then a decoration."

"It's for my baby sister. It took me a lot of art days to make it, but she's really going to love it."

This third grade student likes drawing stylized faces, with all sorts of emotions. I suggested he might want to translate one into a stuffy, and this is the result. It took him several weeks and a couple of extra recesses, but he did it.

A stuffy created by a second grader.

"He's cyclops, that's why he only has one eye. I think the hardest part was probably sewing the ears on, because they're so small."

"It's an alien, Mrs. Dyer. But he's friendly."

This is a hippo created by a second grader, "I used two different colors of watercolor to make it the right color."

"He's a super hero, 'cept he's not a real super hero, just a made up one. I made him up. He's ironsuperman."



You can't see from the photo, but this is a tiny teddy bear, about the size of my palm. A fourth grader worked on it for weeks, stitching and stuffing it for his little sister.

"I saw these mittens in the collage box, so I made a girl to go with them. She's going to play in the snow."

The second in a series of robots made by a second grader.

"It's 'posed to be a girl, can you see her hair? She has pigtails and purple bows."

This ceramic cat was created by a second grader. She made a pinch pot for the head and added the limbs.

The work of a kindergartner, this art was created by drawing with marker on watercolor paper, then going over the marker with a wet brush.

This work was done on a coffee filter. I love how this kindergartner used different shades of blues and greens.

This second grader opted to color his creature in with pastels, rather than painting it. Many students want to take their work home TODAY (!) and don't want to wait for paint to dry.