K/1s Draw Community Workers

Adding color and details

Coloring the trash collector

The K/1s are each studying a specific community worker in the classroom. In art class they are drawing their worker, adding details to help identify what they do, and then painting their worker's environment.

K-3 Students Glaze Their Bowls

Glazing the motorcycle on the bowl's rim!

Concentrating on color selection

Covering the outside

Sharing the blue glaze

The students waited patiently for their clay bowls to be bisque fired and then went to work carefully applying glaze which will give the bowls color and a glass-like finish after the next and final firing.

Middle School Builds Bowls

Throwing on the wheels

Working with a large slab

Building up the sides

Each student in the school is making a clay bowl that will be used to raise money for Joseph's House at our Empty Bowls Event in December. The middle school students work on the wheel as well as hand building with slabs, coils, pinching, or a combination of any or all techniques.

2/3s Make Bowls

Working on the edges

Adding small details

Scoring the surface so the clay sticks together

Each student in the school is making a clay bowl that will be used to raise money for Joseph's House at our Empty Bowls Event in December. Here the 2/3s are at working on their unique designs.

K/1s Work on Clay Bowls

Getting the clay flat

Concentrating on the slab

Each student in the school is making a clay bowl that will be used to raise money for Joseph's House at our Empty Bowls Event in December. Here the K/1s are at work rolling out slabs.

K/1s' Paper Strip Constructions

Thoughtful folding

Deciding where it goes

Little drops of glue

The K/1s took a break from their careful observations to have fun making paper strip constructions of anything their imagination dreamed up.

K/1s Draw Monarch Butterflies

The finished work

And another one

Noticing the wing pattern

Drawing the second wing

The K/1s observed the symmetry of butterflies, and using a palette relating to the monarch butterfly they had observed in the classroom, they drew and colored their own. These were cut into parts and glued on blue paper leaving space between the segments.