Art Fair 2012

 Another mother and I helped the school's art teacher put on the Art Fair again this year, with the theme of "Let Your Art Shine." The second graders made their own vases with flowers and above is Louie's.

 The first graders made butterflies and above is Benny's version. Aren't all the colors great?

 Each class does the same project, but each one is so different, often reflective of the student's personality. It's really neat to see.

Along with the gallery portion, there was a table with ten projects that would be easy to do at home with things you find around the house, and then kids had an opportunity to make an craft. It went along with them theme--they made sun catchers!

Success of the Art Fair

Yesterday was a very long day, but it was well worth it. the Art Fair was during the school's conferences, 2pm-7pm. We had to wait to set up in the cafeteria (the "art gallery") until after lunch was finished. Another mother and I walked in as the last class was walking out.

We were still hanging art work when school let out and the kids, parents, teachers and others walked in to see what was going on. There was a lull in patrons until conferences got in full swing and after that we had a steady flow of parents, grandparents and, of course, the artists!

It was awesome to see the kids so proud to show off their hard work to the ones they love. They were excited to do the potato stamp painting project we had set up for attendees (parents participated, too!). And both kids and parents took home the idea sheets for easy to do at-home art projects--made from things that you most probably were going to throw away anyway.

I wanted to get involved in the Art Fair this year after volunteering last year. It was run by an outside company that had all the kids' artwork in frames that you could buy. They had kits and supplies for sale. They had projects for the kids to work on at the Art Show, but you had to pay to participate.

That was the table I worked at, and I can't tell you how heartbreaking it was to turn away kids who just wanted to create, use their imaginations, but didn't have the money to pay for the project. Now, I can't tell you what I had for lunch yesterday, but I can tell you that I recognized those kids' faces when they came up to the project table (fun! free!) this year.

That was the focus this year, the famous Pablo Picasso quotation: Every child is an artist. It is important that kids know that you don't need fancy supplies or kits to create. You should have seen what the kids made last night. We have quite a few artists on our hands!


I've been having trouble uploading the boys' art from the fair. I'll update in a later post!

Winter Art

Louie

Louie (this is based on the hot chocolate mug he made for himself and his siblings)

Benny, from church school

Charlie, learning big, bigger, biggest

Charlie's painted train

Benny's robot vs. alien

Benny's diamond (or a rhombus, he says) and trapezoid snake

Charlie's shape train

Benny's cat picture and sentence

Benny's cowboy boot

Louie's "The Redest Boot in Texas"

"Ice Painting" by Charlie

Benny's Gingerbread man (with a mohawk)

Benny's boy walking to his neighbor's, scared by neighbor's dog

Benny's "I Love" signs

Charlie's penguin

Charlie's "M" (he was so proud when he got home--he knew it was for "Mommy" and "Meredith")

Louie is so excited for Benny's birthday party--Star Wars themed

Charlie's polar bear puppet

Charlie's "stained glass heart"

I'm hoping to get better about positioning the pictures!

Christmas Art

I like this :)

Benny says "I went to the museum" in this picture. He told me that he made the monster a coffee cup, but didn't have time to make a table. It currently resides in Aunt Joanie's cube.

Charlie

Charlie

Not sure why it's upside down, but it's Louie's

Wow, another one. Louie's Three Wise Men

Louie made the long snowman and Benny made the short.

Benny's candy cane

Louie's drawing--they learned about holidays around the world, which is where the Mexican flag came from. I think.

November Art (aka lots and lots of turkeys)

Louie's FALL sign

Benny's jack-o-lantern

Benny's pumpkins on a gate

Charlie's leaf

Charlie's "H"s (sorry for sideways shot)

Louie's turkey

Benny's Indian corn

Benny's turkey

Louie's Thankful Turkey

Louie's Teepees

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Benny's bloody toothed monster?

Louie's turkey plea to eat pizza instead of turkey

Another Louie turkey

Another Charlie turkey

Another Charlie turkey

Charlie Indian corn (kind of looks like it was painted with a corn cob)

Wow, another Louie turkey. I guess this was a math activity, so a little different.

Louie's owl. I love it! Big fan of owls.

(I think) another Louie turkey. A bit more abstract, though.

Benny's name card turkey

Benny's turkey plea to eat pie instead of turkey.

Another Charlie Indian corn

Louie's Sponge Bob and Patrick play-doh creations

(Some of these art pieces were from school, others from Louie and Benny's church school.)