Today I spent most of the day in the art classroom finishing up the paper ornament projects the kids had done (putting hooks in them, writing their names on the back, hot gluing one gingerbread-man whose leg broke off....etc). I took a break from that to go watch a little in-class play the kids in my third grade class put on. More-so just a reading, but some of the kids really got into it and used a lot of expression! Very fun to watch. Then I headed back to the art room to finish up and help set up for the next project.
In art the students are making heritage quilt looking projects out of felt.... I'm not sure how to describe them but they basically glue on a bunch of triangles to create a pretty pattern of different colors, each representing their country. Very cool project. Went pretty smoothly... a little confusion at first, but everyone picked up on what they were supposed to be doing very quickly after a second brief explanation. The colored felt was all ready in baggies and on another table all laid out, cut up into small squares, which they then had to cut in half into triangles. I do wish the colors could correspond with the flags of the countries better, though I'm assuming that would create a problem since so many flags share the same colors. The end results were very successful since it was a fairly simple project using minimal materials. And the kids were excited to see what color combination they would be creating.
