REuse Plastic Bottle, SPRING

 this is a eco artproject we did in spring (passover) camp with 130 kids, 1st + 2nd grade

step 1- draw on transparent paper (clear sandwich paper) with pastels, the kids coped and colored Spring images of a bug, butterfly and flower.















step 2- on reused telephone book page they glued stripes of precut magazine pages.











step3- brush bottle with glue and press color reused  magazine stripes around the bottle.















step4- put glue on transparent drawing(side of pastels drawing) and wrap around the color magazine stripes layer.

great job! happy holiday!

sharing a Daffodil

this week our daffodil bloomed 

welcome Spring !

 

my painting "daffodil" 

painted on reused floorplan

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...this is my first post this year 2014

I was inspired to share after  reading "Mrs. Knight's Smartest Artists" blog

...."As Picasso said, "Bad artists copy. Good artists steal." Feel free to steal any ideas you like and use them in your own way. It's extra nice when you link back, so the chain of sharing grows stronger. Big thanks to those teachers who share their ideas for the benefit of kids in art classes everywhere!".....Thank you Mrs Knight

mobile, seashells

...this was posted 3 summers ago, it is a great summer project. using recycled cardboard and color sand.

This summer project, cardboard mobile "shells" was hanged on the outside swing.

First they created the cardboard collage; on a pre cut recycled cardboard they glued squared shape precut cardcoard. After covering one side of the cardboard they turned the cardboard over and glued shapes on the reverse side. This step was repeated at least twice, and then put aside to dry.

The second object on the mobile is made from wavy cardboard. The shape was stapled to create a 3 dimension shape looking like a shell. The wavy side (outer side) is painted with gauche. For the inner side, I added glue to the paint and with a spoon color sand was poured on the object.

Picasso- recycle postcard

 

Using a Picasso  postcard booklet that was fallng apart .

They choose the postcard they liked.

I helped them match colors to work with.

16 years girl 

2nd grade

above N, 10 years old  loves horses. I was pleased to find this Picasso postcard and N did this lovely artwork. 

above E, 7 Year PDD student,  she is very enthusiastic

 

Family Day Artproject with Recycle Wrapping Paper

This was done with my lower level disable teen class for family day.

I precut shaped house and heart from recycled packaging brown corrugated cardboard  I found.

They ripped recycled wrapping paper that were precut to strips to decorate the house shape.

With our help they mixed red and white to make a special pink to paint the heart.


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Carboard Box Structures

Following the book by Leah Goldberg, a story about neigbors in an apartment building

we made those building structures  from supermarket boxes.

Holiday Photo Frame

Another aluminum photo frame,

aluminum always looks special.

I think this photo frame is easier to make.

The student choose a photo and marked a rectangle on the board.

Then, glued precut cardboard pieces around the marked rectangle.

The next step glue aluminum foil.

Paint guache on everything, let dry.

Rub of some paint of the foil and then place photo in the frame. 

Redhair on Recycle Printed Vinyl

My artwork; mix media ,acrilic on paper on recycle printed vinyl and embrodiary detail.

I can  identify with the redhaired lady in the background., we are both from the same generation and with my camera I was looking at this young couple.

 I got the  vinyl printed sheet  from the The Center for Environmental Education in Hiriya   , a wonderful recycle center in Tel Aviv. I sewed the painting  on the vinyl sheet with the sewing machine and hand embrodied the detail before giving it to be pulled on a frame.

 Below are cool vinyl bus wraps 

Plasticine Tablet- Chamsa

The Chamsa (Arabic) a lucky talisman shaped like a hand is done as a plasticine tablet on a collage using recycle wrapping paper.

Step 1. Work on a precut card board shape of a Chamsa,
 glue a line drawing of an object, and then cover the drawing with colored plasticine.
work around the object to cover the cardboad shape.
Use sharp tools to embossed pattern on the plasticine
Brush layer of glue on the shape.
Step 2.  While the Chamhsa shape dry creat a wrapping paper collage.
Step 3. Glue cardboard shape on the collage and decorate.

Winter Flower, Cyclaman plant

Another sign of winter is the cyclaman plant growing between the rocks, last year I all so posted a project using a heart shape stancil.

Using old notebook covers that I saved to use as a base for a future art project I cut heart shape stancils.

With that they drew with oil pastels the leaves of the cyclaman plant my favored winter flower. And waterdown guache was used for background.

The flowers was made on a trasparence sheet; using plasticine on the line drawing; in the same technique as the winter snail.

Hand Made Cardboard Fan

As has been a very hot summer.

My daughter just returned from Verona Italy where it was in the high 90's.

Waiting for the start of the Opera , in  Arena deVerona , one of the most beautiful colossoeum in Italy, my daughter discribes the audience fanning themselves with colorful paper fans.

Using recycle cardboard packaging I cut out 4 panels to make this fan.

I taped the 4 panels with masking tape to a large A3 paper so that they can design the fan. One side was done with pastals and the use of a cardboard stancil of a heart.

Then, turned all 4 panels that are still connected with the tape,  the reverse side was designed using markers and stickers. We cut the tape to seerate the peices, you can see the tape as part of the design.

We made holes as seen above to connect with a butterfly pin.

Once the handle was closed with the 4 pannels inside  I cut small trianges on the side so that the fun will open to a fuller fan, you can see the cut clearly below. 

Colorful Pin Wheel

We are waiting for a summer breeze to watch them turn.
Made with 2 layer of artwork, glued together, then cut to form a pinwheel.
The outside as you see is torn crepe paper collage on cardboard page from an old calender.
The inside, is a pastel color drawing of target board.
I predraw a small circle as a start and 4 lines showing where to cut the drawing to form the pinwheel.
Once the collage was dry we glued the 2 artwork together back to back. With alot of help they cut and glued the corners in the small circle of the target.
Then then glued a cardboard circle in the middle.
The last part I did, I using a sharp tool made a hole.
Last part of the original post below is using rubberband,
my after thought, this is not a good  idea since it does not stand well in the sun. Just use a plan smooth rope .  
Before class I premade small matchstick and rubberband to use as turning pin.
Tied string through the rubberband from one pin to the next.