Holy Paper Quilling, Batman!

 

I literally stumbled upon this on stumbleupon.com, so I'm not sure which artist or website to reference, but I was so amazed I had to share- how cool!

Pollock Without Painting

Materials:
- White Drawing Paper
- Oil Pastels
- Toothpicks
- Scissors
- Pollock References

Egyptian Sarcophagi

Materials:
- Water Bottle (one for each student)
- Newspaper Strips
- Paper Mache Goop
- Tempera Paint
- Paintbrushes
- Sharpie Marker
- Egyptian References

Sunday Comic

I'm starting clay whistles and maracas this week... this cartoon always reminds me of when I used to say, "Oh, I like how your cat is turning out!" and my students respond with, "It's a horse..." Now I know to just ask what they're making.

Courtesy of Adventures of an Art Teacher. Enjoy :-).

A Look At Current Events

With the Wisconsin union situation an ongoing, seemingly interminable mess, Jon Stewart took some time during the opening of The Daily Show to analyze the protagonists of these protests: the teachers fighting for collective bargaining rights.

So if you missed it, here it is: Jon Stewart Exposes The Lavish Lifestyle Of The American Public School Teacher

Collaborative Color Wheel

 

Materials:

- Magazines

- Scissors

- Gluesticks

- Tagboard divided into 6 equal sections

Micrographic Thumbprints

Materials:
- White Drawing Paper
- Tracing Paper
- Pencils
- Erasers
- Extra Fine Point Sharpie
- Skinny Markers (optional)
- Ink for Thumbprints

Are you sick of highly paid teachers?

A chain I've received: 

  Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year! It's time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do - babysit! We can get that for less than minimum wage.

     That's right. Let's give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and plan-- that equals 6 1/2 hours).

     Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children. Now how many students do they teach in a day...maybe 30? So that's $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day. However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations.

LET'S SEE....

That's $585 X 180= $105,300 per year 

(Hold on! My calculator needs new batteries).

     What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master's degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an hour. That would be $8 X 6 1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year. Wait a minute -- there's something wrong here!

       There sure is! The average teacher's salary (nation wide) is $50,000. $50,000/180 days = $277.77/per day/30 students=$9.25/6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student--a very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even educate your kids! WHAT A DEAL!!!!

Make a teacher smile; repost this to show appreciation for all educators.

Snowflake Snowmen

 Materials:

- Construction Paper

- Scissors

- Glue

One Fish, Two Fish

 

Materials:

- Page Protector (one for each child)

- Colored Tissue Paper

- Mod Podge

- Paintbrush

- Scissors

- Permanent Markers

- Fish Tracer

- Googly eyes (optiona;)

- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

Sunday Comic and In Need of Some Help

Courtesy of Adventures of an Art Teacher. Enjoy :-)

On another note, I teach a Life Skills class every Monday and this past Friday the teacher had asked me if I could do a lesson on Dr. Seuss. I was thinking along the lines of "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" and making fish... but I'm not sure how to color them.. any ideas? We've done sponging and tissue paper-ing and ripped construction paper collages... just wasn't sure if anyone had other suggestions?

Other inspirations:
- Green Eggs and Ham
- Maybe a Life Skills appropriate way of making a Dr. Seuss hat?

I see them only once a week for about 30-35 minutes, and I do a new "theme" every week that is appropriate to what they're teaching in class, so it would have to be a one 30 minute lesson. Any ideas...?

Double Take

Materials:

- White Drawing Paper (2 sheets 5" x 7" for each child)

- Tagboard (1 sheet 5" x 16" for each child)

- Markers/ Colored Pencils

- Rulers

- Scissors

- Glue Sticks

- Pencils

- One piece 5" x 11" Construction Paper for each child

Stylish Blogger Award

 

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