Monday, February 7, 2011

Valentine Inchies: Classroom Results



A few posts back I presented a Valentine Inchie idea and I wanted to show the results with Grade 2......Click on picture to see larger.

I know, I know there is a space but it's that last kid who has been away and just finished hers, we are letting it dry and then the board will be full!



Now I first tried doing this in small groups, at one table, square by square.....that didn't work it took us an hour just to do our backgrounds....so I thought it thru and set it up in centers, the kids rotated making their squares and it worked like a charm.

We did 9 stations for backgrounds first and when they dried we did 9 stations for the features.






Of course the splatter station was the most popular but with a little convincing managed to get the kids in line to work on their other squares while waiting.






The kids had a blast and are already asking when we can do another art project like that again.....they really liked having to move from station to station.






Great job Grade 2!!

11 comments:

  1. This definitely appeals to the quilter in me!!

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  2. I'm working to figure out all 9 backgrounds. I think I have 8 so far:
    bubble wrap
    saran wrap
    splatter painting
    text from a book
    stamps and watercolor
    wax resist
    salt on watercolor
    tissue paper
    and is #9 marble rolling?

    They turned out great! we may try a 6 square version to fit our time constraints

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  3. Great to make those inchies for Valentine! I did inchies with my students a year ago and worked about the same way. I used a lot of materials and asked students to bring little things from home. If you like you can read the full post here: http://kidsartists.blogspot.com/2010/03/inchies.html

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  4. So the splatter station was a big hit :-)

    I once did a Jim Dine exercise with heart and different materials.

    The coloured sand station was a big hit ...

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  5. Btw: I'm a new follower and a new art-teacher blogger :-)
    http://artlessonsfrombelgium.blogspot.com/

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  6. WOW I love this idea! What a great open ended way to show them a variety of techniques and let them go wild with creativity! They turned out all so beautiful too! I bet they loved it! I can't wait to try this with my classes!

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  7. nice! They turned out great! I might try this with an Easter Egg theme? And, yes, feel free to post my pics from the Parisian theme :)

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  8. Love the stations idea!! It really keeps the kids occupied and interested with no down time.

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  9. Love the idea! How did you store them to dry?

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