Art Club Happenings: Operation Christmas Cards

In our most recent Art Club, we used recycled materials such as shiny wrapping paper, wallpaper, and scrap paper to create Christmas cards for the troops serving overseas and stationed in the states! We wanted to spread some hope, love, appreciation, and Christmas cheer to the men and women who are serving our country! Our cards will be sent to those deployed during the holidays to help boost their morale and spirit!

Operation Christmas Cards is a fantastic organization that sends cards to US soldiers who are currently deployed. Miss M will be sending the art club cards to their head quarters in Massachusetts  where they will send the cards out overseas. This year, they are hoping to send over 175,000 cards to our troops! The Art Club created over 60 beautiful, homemade cards!

Here are some examples of student made cards and envelopes (grades 4-8):

If you would like to learn more about Operation Christmas Cards, you can check out their website: operationchristmascard.org

Art Club Happenings: Macchias

The first session of art club is winding down! The theme of this session was "recycled art" and students learned that artists can use different recycled materials to create art! We used a variety of materials including coffee filters, plastic bottles, old magazines, and wallpaper!

For our first project we learned about glass artists, Dale Chihuly. Using coffee filters, markers, plastic cups, rubber bands, and liquid-spray starch, we created macchias in the style of the contemporary artist. These were super colorful and organic.

We took glued our macchias together to create two beautiful assemblages! Here are the two assemblages that are located outside of the art room!

Nice work!

3rd Grade Sea Turtles

For their first project third graders learned about Sea Turtles and how that species is an endangered species. Many artists create art to draw awareness to different causes that are important to them.

For our project, we create bright and colorful Sea Turtles using chalk pastels and glue. We used the glue to trace the pencil lines of our turtles. When the glue dried, it served as a border for our messy, but beautiful, chalk pastels! We discussed the techniques of blending and how to create highlights and shadows using this medium!

Here are a few examples of the third grade work!

Awesome job!