Fun with Felt

These are some of the test pieces my students made this week. This project is working very well even one of the boys who hates art made a piece.

Here are a few links:

Rosiepink

Teaching Handwork
Weavespindye
sarahstexturecraft


There are many more felting blogs, forums and vidieos on the web/

Great Blog

http://art-paper-scissors.blogspot.com/and http://herdabbles.blogspot.com/ these teachers have some brilliant ideas and a lovely blog.

Christmas 2011

I Made this for myself, and now I am making some with my students, I will upload the photos later. The materials I used for this one were too expensive for class so I photocopied sheet music back to bak and got the students to make thiers from that. They are turning out lovely.

Doodle for Google

We are doing this with our 1st Years this year. We did it last year and it was a hit with the students, its great because it comes complete with lesson plans. http://www.google.com/doodle4google/.

Identity

Well its back to school time, and in preperation for class I began looking up the topic of identity. This is one of the areas that my senior students must complete. I came accross this site and not only did it provide good ideas on identity projects, it provided many other ideas for art class, it is well worth a look. http://www.pbs.org/art21/education/studentartprojects/index.html#. Have any of you run a scheme of work on identity, if so please share.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/school_stdnts/schools/projects/image_identity/image_identity_0607/index.html This site also has some excellent photographs of students art work. I found a great piece for an identity project too.

I like the thumb prints/typography projects on this site. http://www.danieleatock.com/project/holley-portraits/ see the picture above.

Typography

Love this blog michelleward there is a great post on typography and she shows photos of her journal entries and how she achieved them, this could be a nice project for students. I love looking at Typography it is everywhere and it is also very easy for the students to find.

James May's plasticine garden at the Chelsea Flower Show