Circle painting!

We started our new year off with a beautiful mess!! It's circle painting time! You can find some other versions of this on my blog as well. We are just getting started, but every student ( and teacher if they wish!) will be working together on this circle inspired mural project. It's team work at its best! 

Wizard of Oz set design!

Our third grade students will be performing The Wizard of Oz, under direction of our music teacher, Mrs. Perry. I love community art projects and volunteered to tackle the set design with our students. They are doing an amazing job. These will also be on display at our annual art show this year!   Here are photos of the process so far

Emerald city gate!

And the castle of the Wicked Witch of the West has befun! 

One final scene remaining!! 

 

CIRCLE PAINTING! ART FOR ALL, ALL FOR ART!

OUR Gym/Art VIDEO!

The video link above shows Harris Elementary's gym and art class combined last week.  The students learned about circle painting. Circle Painting is devoted to community-based art. Circle Painting is a group of artists, teachers, and community leaders who are all for art and want to bring art for all into communities. They are based in Southern California.  Since we could not bring this creative group to us, I decided to use their project as inspiration and create some circle painted murals, Harris style. 

circlepainting.org

or check them out on Facebook!

We couldn't have done this project without our gym teacher, Mr. Quarando. We had around 60 students in the gym at a time, painting, doing sit-ups, pull ups  and playing a bean bag relay. The gym was set up in stations so that each student could paint and also perform some fitness assessments as well. It was an exhausting week for us, but totally worth it! 

By Friday, all 600 of our Harris students will have taken part of this giant mural project.  This is why I love my job! 

Just a portion of our group circle mural :) The kids are having a blast.