Hands and Hearts

   This was a quick project I did on Friday afternoon with one of my two Extra Art groups. My other group will create them next Friday a.m.  We had some snowy weather Friday morning that made the roads quite slick and we had a lot of late arrivals to school. Since at the time of class there were only 2 of the 6 kids present we decided to wait until next week to make them.  My afternoon group of four got to make theirs and we had a great time.  Upon seeing my example one of the kids asked, " Can I make one?" To which I replied, " Yes, you can!"
Each student chose a color to print their hand onto and glued them to their black background. The students each painted their hands white, two of the kids laughed the whole time their Para helped paint their hand because they said it tickled! After printing they chose and glued their painted paper heart to the center of the handprint. While they washed up I placed gold, pink, light blue and lavender paint on the table with several different sized circle objects they could stamp with on the table. They stamped their borders and placed them on the drying rack to dry when they were done.  In person they are quite beautiful! These are keepers all the way around!

I'm in the process of making a pile of tiny grannies for a new cushion. Their fun, their quick, just what I need this weekend! 

Hope you all have a great week and stay warm if you are in the polar freeze with the rest of us this weekend!

Mrs."C"  :)

April is National Autism Awareness Month

 

April is Autism Awareness Month...  I work with and have worked with many Autistic children over my 25 years teaching art.   They range from kindergarten to 5th grade and are on the Autistic Spectrum in many varying degrees. 

 

Last week one of my 5th grades was away on a trip, so I made sure to tell the Autism teacher in our 3-5 school to send down the two boys who are mainstreamed into the class for art, even though the rest of the class was away.  I told her the whole class was welcome to come down if she wanted!  Five of my favorite kids showed up for art with their Para-Professionals!  We only had a short time and a couple of the kids were upset because we had changed their routine...

 

Change is very difficult for an Autistic child and the littlest thing can upset them.  One was upset because they passed the door for the lunch room and he thought it was time to eat! Sorry no food!  Just extra art!  :)

I pulled out my painted paper scrap box and had the kids create these beautiful painted paper flowers!  The ladies that work with them drew out the petal shapes and had the kids cut them out and glue them onto their flowers center how ever the child wanted.  They came out beautiful and the teacher hung them in the hallway outside their classroom!  Sometimes the project that is last minute and off the cuff comes out great and these did! 

 

 

 

 

Do the flower's centers look familiar?  We have started to recycle these into other projects!  I love when I can get these guys together for a group lesson!  Each child in the group verbalizes in a different way so there was a lot of chatter and happy working noises in the room!  :)

We are finally on Spring Break!  Yeah!!!  I will be back after vacation with more lessons from my room.  I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter/Passover! 

Mrs.C  :)