Comments on: Winner: Home, Paper, Scissors

By: amy

amy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:51:46 +0000

my favorite childhood art project was made during VBS. It is a bread basket made out of popsicle sticks. I still have it and it’s still awesome.

By: Bonnie Temke

Bonnie Temke — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:50:57 +0000

One that stands out to me was of a fish kite made out of bright colored tissue paper. I was in second grade. Our class enjoyed making them. They were all sorts of bright colors and the amazing thing was, is that they really flew. We had to cut the fish shape out of two pieces of tissue paper. We then glued the two pieces together leaving hole for the mouth. We used a paper tube to glue into this opening in the mouth. I was very proud of my creation. I wanted to take mine home, however, we had to leave the kites at school to be displayed for a couple of weeks. I went home and tried to make another beautiful kite. I did ok until I realized I didn’t have a tube for the mouth…..so I thought I’d improvise using a lid from a shampoo bottle. I thought I’d be able to CUT the top off with Daddy’s razor. BAD IDEA…..I about sliced my finger off. I still have the scar to remind me……. Lesson Learned! DON’T EVER USE RAZOR TO CUT THINGS!

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:03:21 +0000

My kindergarten teacher had a ton of awesome arts and craft projects, but I liked projects that involving gluing little squares of tissue paper to make mosaics.

By: mjb

mjb — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:44:05 +0000

We did some really cool projects involving clay and metal in elementary school that I know turned out awful, but it was so fun to have access to all the different materials.

By: Ann Martin

Ann Martin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:54:57 +0000

My fave school art project dates waaaaay back to 7th grade and involved sandpaper, blue, green, and purple crayons, a pot of irises, an old piece of a bed sheet, and an iron… I had to turn the drawing in a day late, because I’d been out sick. Gave it to the substitute teacher who happened to be there that day, and she thought it was a personal gift I’d made for her – how awkward!

By: Colleen

Colleen — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:44:45 +0000

One of my all-time favorite art projects is from my 2D design class in college, but kids can do it too. I just did it today with the kids in the Artastic class that I am teaching. It’s called “Finish the Picture” and you take a small clipping of a magazine photo and draw what you think the rest of the photo looked like. It’s cool because it can just be patterns or you can go more realistic. The ones the kids did today turned out really nice.

By: lesley

lesley — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:13:45 +0000

wow, i love that book, too! i haven’t bought it just yet, am putting it on my holiday wishlist! [unless i win it here!!]
Reading the question for the giveaway immediately reminded me of making tissue paper covered shapes. You know, when you take a small square of tissue, wrap it around the end of a pencil, then glue it down so it’s almost like a flower, and cover the whole cut-out shape with that. ends up like a fluffy paper carpet loved doing that!!

By: Steph Hagen

Steph Hagen — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:07:12 +0000

My favorite school art project was actually also my least favorite. In high school we did a lesson on pointilism and for some crazy reason, I decided to do an 11×14 canvas. Huh-Ated the next month of my life. But now, years later, I’m so in love with the finished project. It’s hanging in my office accross from my desk so I can see it everyday!

By: Brittany

Brittany — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:05:31 +0000

Nothing really stands out from school art projects. I am, however, still fascinated with magazine bowls

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:53:07 +0000

I remember my elementary school art teacher who had a box we all referred to as the “treasure box”. It was a collection of stuff most people would throw away – scraps of yarn, pieces of torn paper, small patches of fabric and the like. On Fridays, all of our projects started in the “treasure box”. Each student would pull a few items out – ponder their future use, and then set out on an adventure in creativity. To this day, I rarely throw anything away before considering if it could be a “treasure box” item for my own kids. It was one of the greatest ways to build creativity in young kids.