When I grow up!
October 30, 2009
When I grow up I want to be a Cellist and a Vet!
WRITER, ART TEACHER, ENGLISH HORSE RIDER
I’m sure every Art Teacher thinks their students are the most talented, but lets just cut the marmelade …my art students are better than yours! Haha…you still love me! Seriously though check this out. I taught a lesson to my 5 to 12 year old students called, “When I grow up.” I had them create the person they want to be when they grow up, whether it was a ballerina, a doctor a paleontologist, a horse back rider, a vet, a teacher a mommy…whatever…and look at what they created! The kids did so many unique professions and got super creative!
I started out the lesson going around the room and giving each kid the opportunity to say what they liked to do when they were all done with their homework. Some kids said, “Play Wii, read, shop, play with my dog, write, go on Facebook.” (Lord help us!) I then discussed with the kids how we could take doing stuff they liked to do and turning it into a job.
I provided the dye cut “person” that I cut out of Trader Joes boxes. I just free handed one person then traced it and cut 40 more people. Then painted them a neutral “skin” color.
I put out a ton of different felt, fabric, yarn, buttons, pipe cleaners, pastels, colored paper, glue and tissue paper for the lesson. My guidelines for my students was that they had to create their accessories and think outside the box. I couldn’t be prouder. Their creations turned out better than my sample. Go figure!
