Organizing !

I love my new classroom but it needs a style and clean. Here's todays organizational moment. A closet organizer turned art storage. 

Prepping Glaze!

How do you Prep for your day? I love my schedule but I have that one back to back class that still keeps me on my toe. So I fill glazes in individual cups, place them in palettes and into a Rubbermaid bin with a lid. I learned if you you place a cup of water in the bin, it keeps them moist longer. 

I also clip my teacher name tags to the clay cart dividing the shelves. 29 classes of clay and 760 pieces later...I still love seeing artists' faces glow with joy when they see their work. 

The Weather & Art

When the weather outside is sad, artwork from young artists makes me smile. 

5th grade tried their hand at color mixing from the primary colors plus black and white. 

New I Can display for the art room....

I laminated paper strips, used an xacto knife to make slits for the paper clips :-) the artists loved it! No more clothespins popping off 

Who would have thought....large index cards!

I only see my artists for 45 minutes a week, and I'm always cutting paper in 1/2 so the project paper is smaller and students are more likely to fill in the page.

At my PD today, we used an index card for our doodle desig. And mounted on a construction paper. 

Quick, easy and cheap for nice card stock canvas. 

Art Door :-) update

I finally had time to re-vamp my art door!  I moved over my paintbrush, but I think it needs to be bigger... 

Click here for the free "Art is" statements.

Great tip!!! Keep your door locked and just place a magnet between the frame and door....Fire drill...Move your magnet and let the door close...no more "which way does the key go to make it lock?"  easy and quick for all drills

Without it's paintbrush...it needs something...maybe the Mona Lisa 

An idea for hanging artwork

Teaching 600+ artists is a lot of paper. In trying to conserve, I think this may be my solution. My new school is missing sprinklers, so we have to limit the amount of paper per wall ratio. 

The laminated black paper will stay on the wall to frame the ever changeable artwork per every month. 

Thoughts? Or any better ideas?  I enjoy framing the art when hanging but not the use of the amount of paper per week.