What a BEAUTIFUL WORLD!

The world never looked as good as it did through the eyes of our children as they created masterpieces of art from all seven continents!  Activity Day, the culmination of a month-long study of art around the world, was a BEAUTIFUL day! I hope that you and your child enjoyed it as much as I did.  Not only did the day offer a chance for the children to relax and have a lot of fun along with friends, family and teachers, but it also was able to showcase the many artistic talents of each and every one of them.

They certainly leave the world just a little bit better, every day!

Family Sculpture Project

The sculptures were amazing! I want to thank  all of the wonderful parents in our class for taking on this project with enthusiasm and  as an opportunity to enjoy art with your child.

Just look at those beaming faces! Each child was so excited and proud to tell me about their sculpture and show it off in our Activity Day museum.

  

 Ellen  "The Sun" made

a mobile of her family and her life using ideas she loves.  

Kaelie  created a family portrait using clay, sewing stuff and creativity  

 

Braden made a robot.  He used colorful yarn for the hair and started to draw faces on the top but changed his mind and put stickers on instead.

Sally made a fairy with her arms stretched out to fly.  She used play-doh to cover a cup for the fairies' dress.

 Sierra made a colorful, happy sculpture using rocks she made from play-doh, sticks, chenille stems and pompoms.  She even added a "love monster" her mommy made.

Elle has been "filling buckets" at home and at school.  She made a beautiful rainbow and butterfly bucket filled with love. 

Ava made a turtle, "The Stanton Indian Turtle".  Her favorite animal is a turtle and she used styrofoam and tape which she spray-painted silver to put her creation together. Then she decorated it!

Nicholas made a robot! Her name is Princess.  She is very colorful and has buttons made of buttons! She has hands too.

Chloe was so proud of her ocean sculpture with homemade sea creatures attached.

Lee was all smiles over his colorful shell sculpture which was enthusiastically sprinkled with glitter to make it beautiful!

Tadhg happily reminisced about a family camping trip with hisphoto-riffic sculpture.

 Tre loves to "fill buckets" and make his family smile! He included his family and pets in his happy bucket sculpture.

Joey and his family love to swim in their pool.  Joey created a very special pool sculpture to share the joy he finds with his family at home.  He used his creativity and fun household items to do so.




A very special museum displayed all of the fruits of the children's creative labor last Thursday and the sculptures will find their own permanent spaces in the ECC to continue to make us smile throughout the school year.


Enjoy these Activity Day pictures!

Snacks are always more delicious when they look good on the plate! These snacks were works of art! The children built their own sculptures using fruit, marshmallows, Twizzlers and toothpicks before gobbling them up!  MMMM...Edible Art!!!

After enjoying a sculpturiffic snack, the children were accompanied by our parent docents  in enjoying the JK museum.

Art Obstacle Course!
Movement and activity is pretty par for the course in Junior Kindergarten. But, when you can add paint, balloons, golf clubs, paper and sand to the mix as well, it's bound to be a hole in one with the kids!

Culinary arts were also discovered as the children studied art from around the world.  It seemed only fitting that we added a chance for the children to create art with their food to serve their parents on Activity Day.  They prepared egg rolls from Asia, apples drizzled with honey from the middle east, pitas  hummus and tzasikki, turkey and cheese pinwheels, plantains and more for a fabulous feast on a fabulous day!

We hope you enjoyed the wonderful lunch show featuring your children.  It was the highlight of our day! The children are AMAZING!

Have a wonderful spring break!