First Post

First I'd like to say welcome to anyone who happens to make it to this little corner of the internet. The concept of writing a blog seemed like a good way to get my ideas out there. . . well mostly it has turned into another not quite competition with my fellow art educator and friend. Both of us are starting up blogs as a way to be more connected with the art education community, plus if one of us didn't do it they would be the loser of this "competition". So since my friend already has three posts on her blog I think it is time for me to post one too. 

I'll start off by showing what my youngest students, Kindergarten, have been working on. To start my Kinders off we talked about Primary Colors. Nothing too in depth, but simply that these are the three colors known as primary and that they help make the other colors. We talked about this while looking at the work of Piet Mondrian for obvious reasons. I also showed this video which they all wanted to watch a hundred times.Ok Go Primary Colors

For the project I had students glue precut black strips of paper onto a white piece. This gave them a little taste of using glue sticks and scissors. After all the students had completed this step I gave each table red, blue and yellow crayons and let them color in the squares and rectangles they had created. I told them it was okay to leave some spaces white.Overall I think the students created some really great pieces.