Crayon Melt Art

Holly tried her hand at a fun art project -- melting crayons while coloring! She absolutely LOVED this project and could believe the results she was getting from the crayons. I too was quiet surprised at just how vivid and lovely her pictures turned out. This can be a dangerous activity though as you are using a flat grill that is very hot to color on.

I took the flat grill and put it on 350 degrees. I lined it with foil to ensure crayon did not get on my grill. Then I placed her paper to color on the foil. I also folded up a small towel to put on the corners of her paper in case she felt inclined to hold her paper while coloring. I stood RIGHT next to her reminding her to be careful and not touch it. She did amazing with it and was so cautious. She colored away asking for more paper over and over!

I really loved the rainbow picture she did - as in this might be one of all time favorite pieces. It is beautiful, colorful, vivid and creative! This is a very simple and non-messy project if you set it up right. We will certainly be doing this again with some other ideas I have in mind. In the mean time here is her creative juices flowing:

Campfire & Art

One activity that Holly is in outside of 'school' is Campfire. We meet up once a week and she enjoys a nice evening of activities, earning patches, doing some community service projects and making friends. This month the kids have been working on their art competition and patch.

The theme is painting - in which they have tried out at campfire. An art teacher came in a held a class on Aboriginal Dot Art. The kids learned about through books and a story, then tried their own hand at it. The next week they sampled water color painting... Holly's favorite. We have read about painting and yesterday we went to the Tacoma Art Museum to see the Norman Rockwell exhibit/paintings - which was amazing! (Wish we could have taken photos from the actual exhibit, bummer!)

Now, Holly has finally made her decision on which painting she wants to enter into the actual competition. She decided on one of my personal favorites a rainbow scene. I love her little details like the heart tree, the rain & sun... to make a rainbow of course and the itty bitty bird hopping along. She enjoys water color painting a lot. We had done a lot with water colors but only recently purchased real water color paper which makes such a huge difference in the quality of painting. She has enjoyed this months theme of art & painting!

Pasta Rainbow

After enjoying our bin of colorful pasta we made a couple weeks ago (http://ourcreativeday.blogspot.com/2011/03/rainbow-pasta.html) Holly created a lovely rainbow from pasta. She enjoyed the texture of the pasta, the bright colors from it and designing her angles using 'straight' pasta. This project turned out lovely!!!

We used thicker construction paper to hold the weight of the pasta, Elmers glue and the pasta. She made a thick line of glue to get the outer rainbow edge first (red) and then worked in from there.