The second group of students at Samuels Rec Center was smaller on the last day of classes. The goal was to make tambourine musical instruments. I had one of the kids pass out two paper plates to each student. Then we passed around a bag of buttons, beads, gems, feathers, and …
The first class at Samuels Rec Center on Wednesday learned how to do printmaking with different objects such as sliced limes and cut sponges. First, my assistant and I gave each kid the colors green, red, and yellow in paint to practice mixing colors. We discussed how different colors compliment each other, …
Project Title: Dia de los Muertos Masks (Day of the Dead Masks) Description: Students use their knowledge of patterns to create their own Day of the Dead inspired mask. Author: Dayna Ensminger Grade level or Target Age Range: K-2 Historical Art Examples or References: Images of sugar skulls, Mexican masks, and Day of the Dead …
Project Title: Mexican Desert Collage Description: Students will create a desert-inspired collage during the daytime or nighttime. Author: Dayna Ensminger Grade level or Target Age Range: Elementary Level, ages 5+ Historical Art Examples or References: Discussion of deserts, Mexico, desert landscapes, Mexican artists such as Frida Khalo and Diego Rivera Vocabulary: collage, desert, overlap, blend, …
The preschoolers at Shissler Recreation Center made their own butterfly gardens! The students started by their gardens with pencils and colored pencils, and then painted them with watercolors. We made the butterflies using coffee filters and clothespins. We used two coffee filters per butterfly to make them a bit …
Indigenous Peoples in the Americas Pictographs – Shissler Rec. Center 8/1/17 Coloring the Dreamcatchers – Shissler Rec. Center 8/1/17 This week, the elementary students at Shissler Recreation Center made their own Dreamcatchers! They learned about how Indigenous Peoples in the Americas symbols, or Pictographs, were used to represent different ideas, …
For our 3rd ASI sessions at Fishtown and Cione recreation centers, we lead the 4 groups through four different projects. At Fishtown, we continued the theme of travel and taught the kids about India. For the older group, we had them trace their hands on construction paper and draw their …
On Thursday at Samuels the first class created little collage books made out of floral vellum paper folded over construction paper. There was animal patterned paper to cut shapes with as well as pre-cut shapes to collage into their books. The pre-cut shapes including clouds, frogs, and stars inspired some …
