Insects

Quickly trying to organize my phone and download pictures. For some reason I thought this was THE year that I would be super organized, ha!  Well here is a hodgepodge of what with did with insects.

Bug Safari accordion books.  The children drew the backgrounds, then added the stamps.  We dictated the words and children also used some "kid writing" to tell their story.

Clay insects.

Life Cycles:

Butterflies with sharpie and watercolor. This is part of a collaborative art piece for our silent auction. 

Play dough with insects and fairies. 

Painting large coffee filers, by folding them in half and using watercolor, so that they come out symmetrical. 

These wings along with the antennas are to be used for the children to dress up and hopefully a recording of a song for a video for The Global Art Project for Peace?

Chinese Dragon

A few pictures of our dragon head made with recycled materials. 

First day we put boxes together and painted.

Then we added scales. 

Then we discussed what features a dragon has and added them using whatever materials we could find.  We also have lots of books to get ideas from. 

Grace decided it was a girl dragon and felt she neede a crown. 

I wish I had taken a picture of the tail!  The tail in a long dyed piece of fabric that each year the children write their names on and draw a picture of themselves. It includes names and pictures of all the children from over 10 years back.  It's pretty spectacular, and I always get a little nostalgic when I see my 14 years old drawing and name from when she was 4 yrs. old.  Snif.