Making Masks

Don’t worry…these aren’t ghosts!  During our Treasure Hunt class, we’ve started making paster masks that are going to painted gold!  Then we’ll put the masks in our treasure boxes, hide them at the Fremont Community School and make a map for our friends to find them.  I’ll post more pictures when we are finished!

Kimono

Naomi created this amazing kimono!  First, we drew the flowers, rainbow pattern and stars onto the white silk.  Because there is a front and back to a kimono, we layered two piece of fabric ontop of each other.  After we were finished drawing, Naomi picked her color palette of reds, oranges and yellows.  We mixed the dye and then started painting onto the silk.  To create texture, we sprinkled salt onto the wet dye.  The next week, we wrapped the fabric in paper and stuck it in the microwave for 3 minutes.  Fabric dye needs steam for it to fix to the fabric, so we put a small glass of water in the microwave with the fabric.  Then we went outside washed the fabric and then stuck it in the dryer.  After it was dry we drew a pattern and started cutting the fabric.  Luckily, Naomi is an excellent seamstress and did most of the work by herself!!!

Puppet Madness

For Puppet Parade class we made oragami puppets that were taped to sticks.   We came up with two different stories: 3 kittens and a mom get seperated by a flood and have to build a boat to sale across the ocean and a story about three seal pups that get seperated from their mom when a glacier splits. 

Here’s a family of cats including a mom, dad, aunt, uncle and two babies.

Australia!

Last Monday, we looked at Australian art.  Most of the art is based off of dreams.  The paintings are also made with many little dots.  We used q-tips with glitter and paint on them to create these “dreamscapes.”

Great sewing job!

Natural mateials sewn onto a piece of felt!

Shadow Puppets

Last Wednesday was our first Puppet Parade class.   We made a shadow puppet theatre out of a cardboard box, decorated the sides with wallpaper and then taped a sheet of tracing paper over the square hole that we had cut.  We also decorated the front with some paint and glitter. 

After we were done with the shadow puppet theatre, we made our puppets.  First we came up with a story in our heads.  With our imagination we came up with characters for our story.  Then we made the puppets out of stock paper and taped sticks to the back.

We also used an overhead projector to create a shadow of our silhouette.  We taped a piece of paper on the wall and traced the shadow of ourselves.  Then we cut the silhouette out of stock paper and attached it to a stick.

Around the World Class goes to Eygpt…

During our Around the World art class on Monday, we started off by creating our own alphabet similar to the hieroglyphics from Eygpt.

Once we were finished with our alphabet, we started to work on our sarcophagus.   To make our sarcophagus, we used cardboard and tin foil. We used our secret alphabet to write messages.  Then we painted patterens on the sarcophagus to make it beautiful and more interesting.   After the paint was dry we drew background pictures of Eygpt.  Naomi had just studied Eygpt, so her drawing includes the Nile River.

Art from the Fall Classes

Kitty Cat masks made by Grace and Alden and an adorned mask by Leela.

Fabric and Paint collage by Grace.

String painting by Alden.

Winter Courses!

The Fremont Community School is offering…

 Afternoon Arts and Crafts Program

 

Monday-Around the World

Tuesday – The Great Treasure Hunt

Wednesday – Puppet Parade

Thursday – Adventures With Elves and Fairies

3:45-5:45pm                                                               Drop-Ins welcome!!Ages 5-10

Winter Classes: January 11-March 19, 2010

 

Card Making Class