make/believe

Thursday, November 27, 2014

THANKSGIVING ON MARS

At Make/Believe, we are all about weird food (see also: this and this). This season, we brought back Thanksgiving on Mars, which asks students to imagine what a big feast would look like on an alien planet. As you can see, this year's intergalactic spread includes bubble soup, smooshed snake, a pretzel man, lizard meat, and sooooo many eyeballz! YUM. Happy Thanksgiving!

Thursday, November 13, 2014

FILE UNDER: THINGS WE LOVE HEARING

Unrelated artwork by Shaun O'Dell

This recent note from a parent completely made our day!:

"I want to say THANK YOU for making this club so fun and exciting. Lilly has never liked art very much...I think because she had fine motor issues when she was younger and she always thought her art work was "bad" so she never wanted to spend any time on art. I signed her up for this club without her even knowing because I was hoping it would make her excited about art. And...it HAS!!! Your project ideas are so creative that she is coming out afterward RAVING about it. She wanted to explain every last detail of her cave drawing to me and was so proud of it. I am so pleased with what you are doing with the kids. Thank you so much!!" - Sarah, parent of Art Brains student

Thank you, Sarah!

CAVE DRAWINGS

This Fall, the Art Brainers have been talking a lot about cave drawings, and then imagining what their lives might have been like in prehistoric times. After making lots of different illustrations on crumpled brown paper, and stenciled, spray-painted hand impressions, the kids climb into a dark, makeshift "cave" filled with their work to investigate and discover with flashlights. Below: some photos from this project with a mostly kindergarten-age group.