North, South, East and West

Here are some compasses that Roan and I are working on…we should be finished next week!

Name Aliens

During our class “The Aliens are Coming” on Monday afternoons, we made name aliens by folding a piece of green paper in half, writing our name on the crease and then cutting it out.  We got some really crazy aliens!  After making our aliens, we worked on making the planets that they lived on along with spacecrafts, stars and other neighboring planets.  Check out Naomi’s alien and her planet!

Wooden Spoon Puppets

This was a very hard project!!!  And the last project in the Puppet Parade class on Wednesdays.  Lots of stringing, glueing, and sewing.  But we all ended up with a really cool wooden spoon puppet. 

Silk Scarves and more!

For the December Parent-Child Gift Making Classes at the Fremont Community School, we will be dying scarves for family members that will end up looking something like this photo.

Please join us for this one time class!!!

Masks and Wings!

These beautiful masks were made during the Masks and Wings class on Tuesdays.  They are mixed media (buttons, glitter, feathers and fabric…all of the good stuff!)  Next class we are going to fit the masks to each childs head.  Can’t wait to see them on!

Check out the new holiday gift-making classes!

Make Holiday Cards this Thursday 11/12/09!

This Thursday at the Fremont Community School I will be hosting a workshop for children and parents to make holiday cards.

Here’s an example of what you could make and send out to family and friends!!!! Please pre-register this one time two hour workshops that will include making 25 custom cards with your child ! Please sign up for 3:45-5:45 workshop by contacting Sharon at sharonfcs@gmail.com or signing up at the Fremont Community School. This class is limited to 5 parents and 5 children per time slot and is the same rate as the regular arts and crafts classes.

A Trip Under the Sea!

Future sight of the Submarine! See the bumpers…

During the Trip Under the Sea class, we will building a life-sized submarine in the front garden area of the Fremont Community School. We started construction on the submarine by drilling a board to the fence that will support the found car bumpers that we will use for the frame. We also cleared the area and made the ground flat by raking and adding leaves.

After working outside, we moved in to make some painted submarines that have transparent window looking out into the sea. Each created different kinds of fish, plant-life and imaginary sea-life by drawing with markers on the transparency film. Then we cut out the windows of the submarine and taped the transparencies to the back.

Creature and Monster again…

Collaborative Collage Creature

Yesterday during our Creatures and Monsters class we created a large 5 foot tall collaged creature named Joe. Out of a hat, each child drew a different body part they were in charge of creating to make Joe. We looked through magazines to find textures that we like, then cut out the body shapes. The child responsible for making the hands had to talk to the child making the legs to know how many to make. This also went for hands and arms, necks and head and heads and hats!!! It was a true collaboration!

Magnet Monster

After we were finished creating Joe, we moved on to smaller creatures on magnets. Each child got to create different creatures by combining body parts that they had drawn, colored and then cut out of a soft magnet material. These creatures can be rearranged as well as holding up important information on your refrigerator.

Monsters and Creatures Class with Sam and Charlie!

Last Wednesday, Sam and Charlie used their FREE Coupon for a Monsters and Creatures class. They really got into creating many arms, legs, and other body parts to their creatures. Instead of just printing the scratchfoam in a rectangle format, we cut out each body part, used a brayer to put in the ink and with the heel of our hand pressed the paper onto the foam. They turned out great!

Creatures and Monsters!!

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