Mrs. Jones' Art Room

I have some very exciting workshops planned for the month of May at the Moxie Cinema in Springfield, Missouri.  If you are interested in signing up, please contact Kate Baird at  kate (at) moxiecinema (dot) com.

Here’s the schedule:

Saturday Workshops: Series of 3 classes plus a special screening of the finished videos at June’s First Friday Artwalk

Workshop 1: May 5

Workshop 2: May 12

Workshop 3: May 19

Special First Friday Screening: June 1

Please continue to check back for updates!  More dates will be added soon!

If a student finishes a project early, I keep several “choice time” options available for them to choose from to keep themselves busy.  I found these AWESOME geometric shape wooden puzzles at Michael’s in the dollar bin!  I took pictures of the completed puzzles and labeled all the pieces so we can keep it organized.  Choice time success on a budget!

Students enjoyed covering rope coil with yarn to create a small bowl.  The hardest part about this project is the beginning coil in the middle of the bowl, but once you get that down, this project gets a lot easier.

Click here for the scoring guide

More pop-up mania in the art room! We used the “v fold” to create a mouth.

Directions for the v fold can be found here.

This lesson plan is great year round because it’s super flexible.  Students can make all of the same creature, or design their own.  Also, students can write on the outside of the card, making it easy to use this as a reading in the content field tool.  Can you imagine the stories these creatures could tell?

2nd graders had a blast learning to make pop-up pumpkins!  We even learned that if you fold your paper the long ways (or hotdog, as we say in the art room) that you can make several folds for pop-ups, creating an entire pop-up pumpkin patch!  Happy fall!

1st graders had a blast learning how to fold and curl paper to create various 3D sculptures.

Meet our 1st grade primary color mascot!  He is a very friendly pig, who helps us remember our red, yellow, and blues.