Catch-up Day

So this class was wayyyy behind on getting to paint three things, therefore we had a triple painting day. Amazingly enough they were able to paint all three with cool colors and got them done in an hour. There's a first time for everything!

Mixed Media Treehouse Collage with 1st Grade

Oh I love these treehouses...not sure who I stole this idea from, so I'm not claiming it as my own...just a wonderful project for 1st graders.

I break this down into 3 days...day one painting the landscape/background...day two building the tree and adding leaves/flowers/apples we read "The Apple Pie Tree" and day three is creating the tree house and ladder.

1st Grade Clay-liens!

This year I got smart about clay and narrowed it down to "clay week", which naturally turned into clay month factoring in 2 days of hand-building then one day of glazing...and still have yet to hit 4th grade's clay project...eek. Anyways, the clay aliens...or clay-liens as I have so dubbed them always are a bit hit. The kids love clay, obviously, but they really get to be "free" when creating these creatures. Here you can see them after the glazing process...and honestly I'm a little disappointed with the glazes this year. They turned out super light...oh well. They're still awesome. 

This was our little clay-lien miracle/beautiful oops...a clay-lien somehow attached itself to a 2nd grader's coil pot and fused together in the kiln. Together they look like A.the clay-lien threw up into the coil pot or B. the clay-lien has a hilariously huge underbite. I couldn't let either kid take this so it will live with me.