In years past, in the spirit of Halloween, we've made haunted house videos, ghost pizza, and Jekyll & Hyde masks.This year, we're back on the haunted house kick again, but in illustration form and with a neat trick (or really, just some basic physics) to accompany it. Kids made mixed media haunted house drawings in which the house haunters only become clearly visible with the use of our "ghost goggles" (aka red filter glasses!). The kids drew their creeps lightly in cool colors, and made them "invisible" by coloring over them completely with warm colors. When looking through the red glasses, the warm colors get filtered out, while the previously latent ghouls suddenly pop out and become more visible. A handy tool that the Art Brains Ghost Busters WILL be using to identify inconspicuous monsters this Halloween. So, watch out, creeps - we see you!
Thanks to Ellen, one of our outstanding Art Brains teachers, for contributing photos to this post!
"Haunted House" by Murch Elementary students from
Make slash Believe on
Vimeo.
HAUNTED HOUSE: In the spirit of Halloween, students will work together to design an interactive model for a haunted house using craft materials. Once it is complete, a short video of a trip through their haunted house will be made by moving a small camera through the model.
I have this project lined up for a couple schools this season, and had the opportunity to work on it for the first time with a fantastic group of Murch Elementary students during a special 2-hour session on a non-school day. It was kind of a whirlwind bringing it all together with several different age groups, but the kids did an excellent job, and I had so much fun. Check out the final video above (or on M/B's Vimeo page), and a couple of haunted house photos below, and try not to get TOO scared.
*Update: Thanks to Linda at Kid Friendly DC for sharing this project on her fantastic blog!
P.S. Not visible in the video/pictures: the haunted refrigerator con zombie made by a pre-k'er.
P.P.S. The haunted house's biggest fan? My cat, Billie. Could not keep her out of this thing, before or after it'd been inhabited by spooks!
Music by: Lydia Kavina, Ensemble Sospeso, & Charles Peltz
