Room B-6's Art Project

For the past week or so I have been helping Betsy with an art project her class is doing. The school is having an art auction to raise money and each class has to turn in a group project for the auction. Betsy decided to create a table with a tile top and have each child in the class decorate one tile. I went last Wednesday and helped in the classroom with the tile work, and it was really fun. Her students are adorable and they really got into it. David built the table and I painted it. The project will be complete on Thursday and I will take it in to Betsy's classroom and photograph it with all the kids on Friday. Here are some of the progress photos:

Betsy has 22 students, so the three empty places in this layout will be for tiles I made with the name of the school, the classroom and the year.



I was going to paint in the garage, but I had a little snag with the heater and the garage is very cold without it, meaning the paint gets to thick to work with. David said I could set up shop in the living room, since there is virtually no furniture and no one uses this space anyway. For the past few days this has been my painting studio.



I did not want to bore you with all the tile photos, but I wanted to include some of my favorites.

This was done by a boy named Gage, and I thought he did a great job, I especially love the antlers.



Olivia chose a flowering cactus, as the table has a desert theme.
Amber asked if this was a dinosaur, or a hill.



But I think my favorite was done by a girl named Skyler. She chose the bobcat, which I thought she drew very well, but my favorite thing is that she included the bobcat's dead prey and a rather large bone lying on the ground at the bottom. I thought of Michael because she put x's for the eyes on the mouse to indicate it was dead. While I praised her drawing when she showed it to me, Betsy, David and I had a good giggle about it later. You gotta love 3rd graders.