Time to be creative!

One of our principles at ArtSpace is to let the students' creativity guide the artistic direction of the class. Today, we saw why! The creativity soaring in the classroom was phenomenal. To begin class, Mr. Justin and Miss Kim talked about the project we'd all proposed as a class last week. On Friday we decided to put together a video about recycling. Today we brainstormed ideas of what could go in the video. We came up with a lot of good ideas, but decided to focus on two just for today: a parade and a skit. We broke into two groups and got to work. Each student brought a new perspective and contributed GREAT ideas to the project. Even though we set out to just plan two things, at the end of just an hour and fifteen minutes, we'd collectively planned a parade, written a skit (with character names and all!), written a rap, planned a dance, created a banner, and made a list of art projects we need to accomplish before we can perform our skit and parade.

At the end of the day each student received an ArtSpace gift: a pencil box containing a pencil sharpener, colored pencils and markers! Each student also got a folder to keep all their ArtSpace work in. We all went home at the end of the day excited to come back tomorrow and continue the next step of our project!