Prepping Clay - Oh Yeah!

This morning I was looking forward to the clay projects but ...yes.....really...I planned them back to back! How?!? What happened? Oh...well it happened. Okay, I wanted to prep for both I started cutting and cutting but I needed to separate them for ease of passing them out ...here's what I came up with

Organizing Reproductions for student use

I hope students will be able to look through the prints to gather ideas and I will be able to pull prints with ease.

Behaviors in Art Class

My goal is to be more communicative with parents. I created a creative news note to go home with awesome artists and borrowed the idea of the oooopps your child had a hard day in art.

So how to keep track of if you send a note home to be signed? I'm going to make a post-it note chart next to the door. If I send a behavior note home, I will write the student's name on a post-it on the sent side and when the note is returned...I will move the post-it over.

Is this a good idea? bad idea? have you tried it idea?

With only seeing the students one a week it's hard to remember if they returned a note...or who I sent a note home with.

Art Centers for Elementary Art

Here are centers that I use for when classes earn 5 palettes for great behavior I put 6 out depending on the grade level.

Paper tube sculptures! Art club!

Art Club Ornaments

Can you say EASELS!

My young artists love their easels! Many creative masterpieces will happen for many years to come. Thank you DonorsChoose.org