Class Notes

clockwise from left: Callie, Kendra, Tegan, Kalli, Mackenzie, Hannah, Ryliegh. note: This is the only photo with Callie in it. She's a whirlwind of activity. :)

We had another wonderful afternoon in art. Here the class is busy finding images they like to put in their journals. You wouldn't believe it but they spent an hour and a half doing this! And some of them still continued to do this while I worked with each girl on their self-portrait. If you ever have a big group of girls and you want to keep them quietly occupied for a long time just give them a big pile of magazines with scissors and glue. ;)

Each of the girls that worked on drawing self-portraits did amazing! I was so pleased with their enthusiasm and willingness.

We also cut foam into stamps and glued it to handles. We will use it this next week on our journal pages. And get to our altered photo lesson that we didn't do this week. There just aren't enough hours in the day sometimes! :)

Ryliegh

Hannah

Kendra

Mackenzie

Tegan and Kalli

Sometimes the enthusiasm spills over. ;)

Take-Home: No homework! Just play in your journals if you want.

Class Notes

We had such fun on Thursday in our first kids' class! The girls mixed colors to their hearts' content. First, we did color wheels where we learned about primary colors and used those to mix secondary colors.
Then, we started painting our journal pages. We used recycled materials to make textures and stamp shapes. We also used papers to make borders on our pages. Several of the girls really thought "outside the box" when thinking about what how they wanted to decorate their journals. I'm super excited about this group. They are all wonderfully creative and just a joy to be around.

We missed getting some of the kids in the pictures because we were having so much fun! :) I apologize and I'll make sure to get everyone up on the blog this next week.

Take-Home: Be sure to bring your journal in its journalbag back this next week along with magazine images that you really like. We also need a forward-facing photograph of yourself so that we can work on self-portraits.