The fifth grader who created this had never worked with clay before. He explained to me that he wanted to make a head, and I told him that it would need to be hollow. I demonstrated how to make two pinch pots and attach them. He caught on right away. I was impressed with the result.
"My mom's taking me to a farm and this is what I think it will look like. Horses, people. This side is daytime, and this side is night time."
-second grader
After amassing dozens and dozens of worn out/mateless socks (donations from Bountiful Elementary families), I opened a mini center yesterday--sock softies. I did a short demo on how to cut the sock, using this great diagram that I found on pinterest. (Unfortunately, I haven't been able to track down the creator of this diagram) Many kids dove right into making their own sock creatures.
This softie, named Billy isn't finished yet, according to his fifth grade creator, "I want to give him some hair. Yarn hair, maybe black or blue."
I asked the first grade artist about this ceramic piece, "What can you tell me about this?" He looked at me with a pitiful look in his eyes, "Tell you about it? It's a car! Don't you see? There's the windows, and that's the door."
Two first graders painstakingly sewed pillows. One told me, "I've never even sewed before! My mom and dad will be so s'prised! They don't know I can sew! And this pillow [top] will be for my doll that sleeps in my bed." The other told me, "I wanted to make this pillow for the poor children that don't have toys or anything. But first I hafta finish this one for my brother. I already gave him one and he slept with it, but it got lost. And he was sad. So I'm gonna give him this one, and then, next art time, I can make more to give away."
