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The ME PTSA is so glad that we were able to send home some fun Fall-time STEAM activities to every student at this month's supply pick-up, including a mini pumpkin! Your supply bag should have a packet of purple paper with a PTSA green front page of instructions, and a little bag of supplies. Read on for more info on how to use these supplies to put together a catapult perfect for launching a little pom-pom pumpkin and how to build a foldable paper house! You can choose to dress up your pumpkin for the Storybook Pumpkin Parade, or paint or decorate it however you want, or just use it for a festive fall decoration at your house or your desk! Want to share your pumpkin in the Storybook Pumpkin Parade? Get all the info here! Craft Stick CatapultNeed more help to figure out how to build your craft stick catapult? Or maybe you want to make it even more awesome? Check out these great sites with photos and videos and ideas! Basic Catapult video tutorial Darice Blog: DIY Catapult photo tutorial Little Bins For Little Hands Blog: Popsicle Stick Catapult Video Tutorial - catapult with plastic spoon Foldable Paper HouseYour packet of papers from the ME PTSA includes blueprints to build this cool house, engineered by Delia over at Delia Creates. You can make this house as spooky or as sweet as you would like - and you can even print more pages to color and build more houses to decorate for the Halloween or Winter seasons, or just for playtime! Click here to print more house blueprints, including a special bonus piece (see if you can figure out what it is!). You can print these on to plain white paper and color right on them, or use the pieces as patterns or templates to cut out of different kinds of paper, like card stock or construction paper. We can't wait to see what you make! You can send photos of your creations to us at [email protected], and we'll share them on our Instagram and Facebook pages! Check out Delia's great blog for so many more ideas and projects, including more printables, and inspiration for Halloween and winter houses! Need even more spooky crafts? Cut out your own cloud of bats, or make your own twisty trees out of wire or pipe cleaners and paper! Ready to build? Check out the simple instructions below (click here for a link you can pause!), and scroll down for full video instructions! Need even more info or ideas? Watch a video with tips on coloring, and another video with info on how to build your house! Color Your Foldable House!Build Your Foldable House!As a working artist, part of my job is to fill my own well of inspiration from other artists, artworks and the world around me. That sure looks a little different these days. I used to find inspiration by going to concerts, plays and musicals, watching a ballet or traveling Cirque du Soleil show, and walking through museums and galleries. I also got inspiration from the art lessons curated and taught by our wonderfully talented art docents and the beautiful creations of our Mukilteo Elementary students. Now would be the time of year that the beautiful fall lessons, packed with sugar skulls, pumpkins and leaves would be filling the hallways, library and office with their seasonal flair. Like all of you, I am adapting to this new terrain. Now my inspiration comes now from the painted rocks we find on our walks, the blooms and leaves in gardens we pass, and meandering virtual visits to museums near and far....and sometimes what seems endless scrolling through a carefully curated Instagram feed. In May I fell down the Instagram rabbit hole of hysterical art history gold when I found the account Tussen Kunst & Quarantine; a Dutch account, translating to Between Art & Quarantine. People were recreating famous artworks with what they had on hand, at home. A little bit of art genius was born. The Getty Museum in Los Angeles gave more life to the challenge, with instructions. The instructions are simple: Choose an artwork to recreate, find three (or more) items around your house to recreate it. The results are unique and often giggle producing. And who doesn’t need more laughter in their lives? With that, we are calling ME staff and students to participate in our very own Between Art & Quarantine-or BAQ art show-until we can be back, in person, ourselves. This also gives students a great fall time opportunity to do a little fall time dressing up as someone else! It gives us a way to see all the fabulous creativity in costume that we would see at our Boo Bash. We invite you to join us!
Here’s what you need to know: -all recreations must be age appropriate-no mature content (even though classical art can be a little racy!) -send submissions to [email protected] no later than Oct. 31st. -please include a photo of the original artwork with your submissions, as well as student name, grade, and teacher. Take some virtual trips through a few museums, and find a work of art that speaks to you, or that you can recreate. Here are 12 Virtual Museum Tours for Kids You Can Do Right This Second, from Pure Wow. Here are some tips from behind the scenes at Getty, to help you in your creative quest. We can’t wait to see what you come up with! Stay tuned for our virtual ME BAQ gallery! Additionally, the art docent program at ME was getting a face lift, and we had planned to start rolling out a new, more standardized program this fall. As the summer days came to a close, lessons were built in hopes of returning to classrooms. 2020 had other plans for us, and that’s ok. We will bring the new lessons into play when we can gather again. Until then, we are working to get some lessons and practical art resources to students. There are many art resources available online, and we have included some below. We are working toward ways to bring more arts education to students while we are in digital learning, so stay tuned! We all need art. Art is everywhere. Art is not cancelled. https://www.weareteachers.com/online-art-resources/ https://www.kitchentableclassroom.com/best-art-museum-websites-interactive/ Smithsonian for kids: https://www.si.edu/kids/ |
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