The Square 1 Art school art fundraiser has been a big hit at our school (Jamestown Elementary)!
Products students are excited to use
Our students have absolutely loved
having the opportunity to create art that they will see
Parents love to continue the tradition
Parents have wanted to ensure that we will continue the program year after year
to help them with gift ideas for family.
Extra cash for your art budget
Of course, we as art teachers, have
been so excited to have extra cash for our ever-diminishing art budget. Square
1 art has been a Win-Win all around!
Successful Kid Art Lessons Plans
In
choosing the projects that would be most successful for each grade level, we
tried to choose iconic images that are easy for all students to draw, images
that are easy for all ages to connect to, and subjects that could be
individualized according to the student’s interest and talent.
Some examples of
subjects were: self-portraits, hearts, fish, hands, suns, moons, etc. Every
grade level had at least a couple of choices of subjects, with freedom growing
with grade level.
With our upper grades, we allowed them to bring in a sketch
if they had an alternative subject idea. With all grades, we just emphasized
the things that we teach daily: balance, warm/cool colors, emphasis, pattern,
lines, drawing large and filling the page, overlapping, etc. We also placed
many examples on the board to get their creative juices flowing!
Kids were so
excited to get started, couldn't wait to receive their stickers, and had such
enthusiasm while brainstorming who they wanted to purchase a gift for.
We
look forward to repeating the school fundraiser next year!
Courtesy of guest blogger:
Denise Teitsma, Art Teacher, Jamestown Elementary
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