Recycled items I need for the art room....

Here is an updated list of recycled items I'd love in the art room. Your contribution opens up the yearly allotted art funds to be used on other art supplies and allow your children to explore more sophisticated and higher quality art mediums.

LIST: (items in red are badly needed NOW)

* Buttons

* Magazines

* Cigar boxes......we can;t have enough of these.

* Newspaper (city paper sized preferred, but all accepted)

* Yogurt cups

* Corks (No, I won't judge you for bringing me hundreds....LOL)

* Cardboard (8x11 or larger) for everything

* Cutting board (for garden related art signs)

* Old house paint (any color) to paint old discolored wooden shelves

* Sheets (any color as long as it's solid and not prints. I use this for banners)

* Large old T-shirts (for smocks for kids who have not yet brought one in)

* Thread spools (for everything from stamping, sculpting to construction)

* Used or new canvases on stretchers for permanent art for the school

* Cardboard baby books (any kind)/ (We will repaint and make new books)

* Ribbons -for collage, to construction)

* Old broken toys - for construction projects.

* shoe boxes- all sized for construction

* Calendars- for visual resources

* Plastic/styrofoam egg cartons- for palettes (no cartons please)

* Wire roll (any kind as long as its easily bent

* Small boxes of any kind (soap, gift box, toothpaste box)

* beads/old broken jewelry for sculptures, etc

* old clean towels

Things I don't need ever:

* Cardboard egg cartons

* Milk cartons

* Water bottles

Things I do not need right now:

* Large yogurt containers

I love my Murch Parents

I love my Murch Parents. I come to work everyday to find bags of recycled items waiting for me. They are like mini presents and they absolutely make the art program work at its best. below, dozens of yogurt cups. We use these for all sorts of projects. We use them for paint, for glue, for construction projects....and the list goes on.

Thank you all.....

I am also posting an updated list of recycled items I need for this semester right after this post.

4th Graders Learn About Ways in Which One Can Add Character to a Portrait

Children in 4th Grade are working on creating character-filled self portraits this month. We began by looking at portraits dozens of portraits. Children were given descriptive labels and asked to walk around and place their label on the portrait that was congruent to their description.

During the end of the class the young artists were asked to describe three things about themselves and to list ways in which they could include these characteristics in their portrait.

3rd Grade Create Sculptures from Tetrahedrons

In art we discussed what a 3D shape was. Some kids began by describing 3D as a "pop-up shape". We went further in defining solid 3d shapes by defining it as an object that can be measured 3 ways; length, width, and depth.

My Monday 3rd Grade art class (Friedman) see me twice a week for the first quarter. One of those days is used to go further within the unit we are working. Today we learned about tetrahedrons. It's a solid shape made out of 4 equilateral triangles. Children traced 4 triangles as shown and created various tetrahedrons and begin taping them together to make a much more complicated shape solid.