Fricken Love Bats

This lesson is from Easy, Peasy, and Fun. Art club made adorable bat artworks! I gave them die-cut bats and warm colored paints. We used sponge brushes to add texture and waited for them to dry. Then we saw our bats magically appear!

The Great Plate Dragon

During our Chinese art unit, art club worked together to create this huge Chinese dragon from painted paper plates! He looks amazing in the hallway, love it!

Last Days of Art Club

Both groups of the Guild Art Club had their final meetings with an Arty Party! We had giant mural painting, water gun painting, free build with clay, iPad digital art apps, and snacks! I'll miss my 5th graders, make me proud in middle school!

Reading Across America

Our 3rd-5th grade art club members illustrated dictionary pages to display in the library during March. We used oil pastels, colored pencils, and markers to illustrate a single word on the page. Love these results and it was fun to display our art in a different place in the building. 

Art Club String Art

Another lesson from Cassie Stephens, you can see what she did for dot day here.  We started by painting a cardboard square any way they like. I need some of that awesome neon paint that CS has in her room!

After the paint dried, we started stitching. We traced a coffee can lid then drew on 12 dots. Instead of using a template, we discussed how a clock was arranged and drew the dots the same way you label a clock. 

Then we used a bamboo skewer to get the holes started so that we could run a plastic need through them. 

I showed them 2 techniques: rotating squares and radiating lines. After that, it's just experimentation. I did something similar with my summer art camp at the Frist last year too. Always a successful lesson.