What's Going on in the Classroom: Completed Found Object Sculptures

Just an update, here are many of our completed found object sculptures. They turned out great!

What's Going on in the Classroom: Found-Object Sculpture

It has been a hot mess in the art room the last two weeks! Wow! Today we're having a clean up day and I'm so relieved because my semi-organized self is going nuts with everything that's all over the place. But we've had a really good time putting together these Found-Object Sculptures. Students were required to create a sculpture using at least one item that they brought in or 'found' to create a sculpture. Each of my classes had a different theme for their sculpture. The themes were flight, nautical, space, and nature. We spent and good day or so brainstorming and sketching and then students went to work. They used everything at their disposal, and by everything, I mean eeee-ver-yyy-thing! But they are turning out really cool. Check out students working and projects that are pretty near completion. When I get a second I will post some of the finished ones!

Messy Art Projects are the Best!

In my opinion, students aren't allowed to be messy anymore. I think that half the fun of art is getting to really touch and feel and play and get messy! So we have been playing and getting messy in three different grades during the last couple of weeks!

In first grade we spent some time learning about Jackson Pollock and how he basically started his own type of painting called 'action painting'. Then we spent time painting like Jackson Pollock! It was great! We used eye droppers and big movements to splatter the paint all over our paper. Students had a great time with the freedom of painting like Jackson Pollock.

The second grade students are in the middle of a project that is turning trash into treasure. We are using cardboard from cereal boxes and Pringles cans to create an airplane. We spent time learning about the different parts of the plane and sketching out what we wanted our planes to look like. Then students cutout the shapes they needed and taped them onto the Pringle can to create their plane. In the last class, we used papier mache to cover our entire airplanes. It was a mess, but it was awesome and the kids loved how tactile it was.

The third grade is also making a mess using clay. Students learned all about classical architecture and the different orders. Then they chose a building to do a simplified sketch of and then create in clay. They did an awesome job and now we're glazing them!