Teaching at Penn Treaty for the first time was quite interesting for me because I didn’t know what to expect since the students were a little older than the ones at Southwark, but it actually turned great because they were so eager and engaged with the activities. Kristen & I …
A few weeks ago, I came across a joyous bag of miniature pom poms at the Art Sphere office and stashed them in the supply bin for Fishtown Community Library. Last week, I looked around the children’s section of the library for inspiration and came across the beloved book, The …
Your Destination: Inspired by the lion in Genevìeve Côté’s Mr. King’s Castle, create a castle using collage techniques with pre-cut triangle, square and rectangle shapes. This project reinforces shape recognition and sharpens reasoning, creative and imaginative skills. Travel Kit: Mr. King’s Castle by Genevíeve Côtè oversized construction paper pre-cut triangle, …
I can definitely say that my first day of teaching went very well. The students and staff at Southwark Elementary School welcomed me with open arms. I really enjoyed seeing these kids utilize their creative talents in groups to build a tower with marshmallows & straws. It was nice to …
I’m very excited about joining the teaching staff at Art Sphere because this would be an opportunity for me to not only develop more skill & experience teaching, but I would also be able to utilize my artistic skills and background by training and motivating the next generation of artist. …
Last week at Southwark, we learned about blind contour line drawing and the students experimented with making portraits of their friends. Each student picked a partner and challenged themselves to draw their friends’ face without lifting the marker or looking at the paper. After their portraits were complete, we handed …
Our participants at the Fishtown Community Library have been pre-k or younger. So, we’ve been focusing our art projects on developing their fine motor skills. This week’s lesson concentrated on identifying similarities and differences. One of the books that we read was Different? Same! by Heather Tekavec. This book compared …
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Martians landed at Cione Recreation Center this week and what a wide variety of alien lifeforms we encountered. Students drafted their own unique extraterrestrial visitors. Some of their creations had more than two eyes, many arms and most of the aliens had very pointy …
