This is your art gallery. If you want to send me a jpg of
the work you create in the class I will post them here.
I have done some flannel boards and story
crafts, but they are buried at the moment. I
will try to dig them up to share. I did an
Indian Heritage reading and a rock craft that
the children just loved painting. I rarely keep
my crafts after the events. I do just want to
share a picture of the Black History month
performance that the local elementary school
shared with us. They came in, set it up, picked
the books to share; and were extremely excited
to perform for the library, plus made it in the
newspaper. Use local Art….
Susan Groce
Children's
Librarian
San Bernardino
County Library
Barstow
Branch
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Week 3
For the first week, I followed a link to the
Canon papercrafts site, and made a cat out of pieces I
printed. My cat approves!
For the second week, I chose the book Anansi and the
Moss-Covered Rock. It's about Anansi the spider, who
finds a magical moss-covered rock that he uses to
outsmart the other animals. I decided to paint a rock
to look like the moss-covered one in the book. I
thought that it would be fun if kids could bring a
rock from home, and after the story, they could paint
an animal on their own rock with acrylic craft paint.
I made a tree frog on the other rock.
Kathy-Fontana Library
I chose to
do the book on "Chasing Vermeer." This will
also be my project with my youth discussion
group in our Summer Reading Program. One of
my co-workers is a scrapbooker and she came
up with the idea to do a book using paper
bags. As you can see on page 2 there are
flaps for secret messages and and on page 3
openings for slipping special items into. I
loved this and went to work on one of my
favorite mystery books. It was great fun to
think of all the things to add to my book.
I hope you like this idea also.
Lou
Ann Baugh
Children's Services
Jonesboro Public Library
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I am
attaching the jpegs of pictures I took of
the castle my book club made as the project
for our book "Castle in the Attic" by
Elizabeth Winthrop. The kids absolutely
loved making this castle!! Thanks for
sending me the website for the castle
templates--I used the templates plus
pictures from books. The castle is made
entirely out of recycled materials! Enjoy!
We all had a blast making this!!
Cheers,
Vicki Antonitis
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This project was
inspired by a workshop in Little Rock, AR
last year. I put my own spin on it by
making it a flip book. The materials used
were from scrapbook paper which has a lot of
texture visually. I used laminating film
for the lay over to draw the chameleon on so
when he was flipped the children could see
the chameleon change colors.
Lou
Ann Baugh
Children's Services
Jonesboro Public Library
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Week 1
The four artworks above were created by Lou
Ann Baugh from the Children's Library at Craighead County Jonesboro Regional
Library in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
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"I chose to draw
for my class assignment. I love
to draw and thought this would
be a chance to do more. I went
on line and selected several
different objects to give a try.
I must say the cartoon
characters were my biggest
challenge and the wildlife came
easier. I want to work more on
the cartoon characters and will
be visiting those site more in
the futute. I want to try some
drawing with my kids in the
summer. Also, the Children's
staff is constantly looking for
flannelboard stories. We often
make up our own to include the
poems, stories etc... I want to
add my own drawings to some of
these stories. With practice I
hope to see improvement." Lou
Ann Baugh |
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Joyce Read
Prescott Public Library, Prescott, Arizona
"Here is a
picture of the paper bag puppets we made at
our Charlotte's Web Party. Definitely a
recycled
art project as Wilber's nose is an egg
carton cup, his paper bag head is stuffed
with newspaper. The stick
is a paint stirring stick. It's a good idea
to put glue on the stick before placing it
inside head in the middle of the wadded
newspaper and tying yarn around it securely.
Ears are pink construction paper and google
eyes are glued on." Joyce Read
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Joyce Read, Prescott Public Library
"For my assignment I chose
watercolor painting which I actually did with my two craft groups. They did very
well
and both kids(ages 4-10) and their parents had a good time. I've found that
large coffee cans work really well for
brush cleaning. They do not tip and hold a lot of water.
I have also submitted some examples of work that I did here in Prescott with my
craft events. One is a color wheel
tail turkey we did at Thanksgiving. Use a plain paper plate to color, paint or
glue tissue paper on. Add bottle shape
body of construction paper, orange const. paper legs and bill, a wadded tissue
paper waddle and google eyes. Use a
brad to attach body to tail and tail spins around. For Halloween we made puzzle
pieces ghost pins. I was lucky to find an old
puzzle that was white on the back(otherwise you have to paint them white). Cut
off some of the shapes to make a ghost shape.
Draw eyes and mouth with permanent marker. Use jewelry or Ultimate! glue to
attach pin backings.
Also for Halloween we made Owl Safety Trick or Treat bags. Get paper bags with
handles. Make wing, ear and feet shapes.
Glue yellow construction paper on back of two old cd's. Our Library tech people
save old cd's for us. (You can also make mobiles
out cd's with beading materials). Use black permanent marker to color hole in cd
where yellow paper shows through for pupil.
Glue cd's overlapping where eyes should be. I use Crafter's Choice The Ultimate!
glue for things like cd's. It's for glass, plastic metals, etc."
Joyce Read, Prescott Public Library
