Family Art Day

This week for my art class, I worked on my plans for my Family Art Morning. For this, I am planning a morning where my art students and their families can come and have a collabrative art making experience. This was an idea from my host teacher. We are trying to create an art garden that is located on the grounds of the school, so while the weather is still cold we are making decorative items to be located around the garden. I am excited to see how this morning goes, but I also know that I am going to have to be open to flexiblity from my previous teaching experiences. I will update and let you all know how it goes!

Last week in my kindergarten art class, we made butterflies. This was a hit! We took two coffee filters and watercolored on them. Really they were just seeing how watercolors flow with water. The colors were so beautiful! After that, we took the two watercolored coffee filters and put them in a doll pin, and tada! we had a butterfly. I think the reason they really enjoyed this project is because they could relate to the object. They have seen butterflies before, and now they have made one! What a great feeling as an art teacher to see such shining faces.