This is your class gallery.  Please send your work as a jpg and I will post it to the website.  This is optional.  If you don't have a camera to make a jpg you can tell us about your project on the discussion board (Conference Folder.)

 

 

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

 

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
 

 

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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The four artworks above were created by Lou Ann Baugh from the Children's Library at Craighead County Jonesboro Regional Library in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

 
"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

 

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