K/1s Paint Hot Cocoa Pictures

Drawing the cup with stripes

Beginning to paint

After our most recent snowstorm, the mood seemed right for some steamy hot chocolate pictures. After looking at the shapes you need to make a cup look 3-D, the students drew cups brimming with hot chocolate and marshmallows.

4/5s Sew Stuffed Lizards

Cutting out the pattern

About to begin cutting

Sewing the sides together

Careful stitches

Sewing the last section

Stitching on flowers

Some finished lizards crawling across the table!

For the third part of their lizard trilogy, the 4/5s are sewing stuffed lizards. They traced a lizard pattern onto felt, cut it out and sewed it inside out. It will be turned right side around, stuffed and decorated to personalize it with fabric scraps from Guatemala.

K/1s Make Masks for The Hat

Painting the cat

Cutting out a finished mask

Painting Lisa's House

Working on a wall together

The finished set

The cast with masks

As part of the K/1's study of Jan Brett they will perform the play The Hat, based on her book. They made masks of the different animals, painted trees and turned a large refrigerator box into Lisa's house.

Middle School Learns About Jacob Lawrence

Sketching out initial ideas

Painting someone building a bowl

Painting the speaker addressing the audience

As the middle school students learn about the Harlem Renaissance, they are learning about the art of Jacob Lawrence in art class. Using his Migration Series as a jumping off point, they are working on a series of 31 painted panels telling the story of the Parker Empty Bowls event, from gleaning vegetables at Hancock Shaker Village to making bowls and soup. Each student is illustrating a specific topic that will tell the whole story when they are finished and displayed in sequence.

4/5s Sculpt 3-D Lizards

Painting the paper

Gluing the legs on

Is it finished?

Finished lizards

Sculpted lizards over the pastel one

After drawing pastel lizards, the 4/5s learned how to transform a 2-dimensional material into a 3-dimensional format, and made sculptured lizards. They painted and textured a large piece of paper and then followed specific directions to cut and fold their paper to transform it into a vibrant, articulated lizard that will crawl down the hallway walls.

K/1s Learn to Draw Jan Brett's Hedgie

Drawing Hedgie

Adding Sharpie

Hedgie emerging

Finished painting

One more (or two!)

As the K/1s spend some time learning about the artist/author Jan Brett, they delighted in learning how Jan Brett creates her "Hedgie" character. After trying their hand at drawing and then painting Hedgie, they will make masks of the various characters in Jan Brett's story The Hat, which they'll perform as a small play.

K/1 Snowmen Looking Up

Gluing the background together

Careful lines of glue

Adding details

Checking out the progress

The K/1s collaged four sheets of torn colored paper together to create a layered landscape on which they painted a snowman. Careful placement of a carrot nose was sometimes collaged to make the snowman look skywards. Then buttons and cut paper were added to create a scarf, hat and anything else that might be needed.