Art Club Baskets

My own crafting endeavor is struggling at the moment (see knitting post below), but my Art Club kids are having no problems with their's. They had so much fun making these baskets.

Storyteller Figures

These are some shots of my Art Club when they were creating their interpretations of Navajo Storyteller figures.


They were to personalize the clay figures.



I love how they are all different

and could tell their own stories.

Found Object Art

Today was the last day of Art Club for the year. The group I worked with this semester was pretty motivated. Last semester I had more kids who were more interested in the social part of the club. This group was more fun to work with.

I had the kids look at art made from found objects. (Flickr was a rich resource for this.) Then they used egg cartons, cardboard boxes, cardboard strips, and odd cardboard packing materials.

Some kids made machine constructions like this "air jet."


Others did constructions resembling robots.


And when those didn't work out, they "art smarted" it and turned it into something else. This sculpture started out as a robot and ended up a castle.


Art Club gives the kids more of an opportunity to take media in the direction of their own choosing than they have in class. I think I stand back a bit more and give them more "space." Of course, there are usually less than 15 at a time in Art Club. That's at least 10 less than in their regular class. It makes a difference.