Genesee Valley Central School

Elementary

Room

Keep your eyes open

*more creativity to come*

Art Teacher: Ms. Deal

Thank you for coming out
for the Fine Arts Festival!

You will recieve a flyer with more information about
artwork and it's return.

Take a look at the Art show link below for both
Kindergarten- Second Grade  and
Third-Fourth Grade

07' Art Show links below

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

                                                                                     -Edgar Degas

Virtual Tour of the Art room

You can find through the various webpages artwork from the 2007 Fine Arts Festival.  

Mixed in with those pictures are other projects that were not included in the show.  

K-2nd Grade: Art and the Alphabet

Link:   Art and the Alphabet K-2

3-4th Grade: : To Paint or Not To Paint

Link: To Paint or Not to Paint

K-2nd Grade: Art is...

Link:  Art is...K-2

3-4th Grade: Art is...

Link: Art is...3-4

Attention Parents:

Art Smocks!  Most students have come in with art smocks. 

This is something to keep in mind for next year,

I have seen numerous art smocks that the students struggle to get on.  If they have many buttons, to long

of sleeves and to many things to tie.  This creates a dilemma because it takes away from there Art time when we

have to get on Art smocks. 

As of next year there will be a few art smock guidlines, to make it easy on the students and teachers:

• It needs to be an old t-shirt; simple pull over the head (if you can't find one of yours, you can always buy one cheap to use at a Salvation Army etc).
• If long sleeved, the sleeves need to be cut to a length that they will not drag over everything (students are told to push up their sleeves under their art smocks often, and if they follow directions there are less casualties to clothes)
• NO BUTTON UPS!  Students need to learn to button their clothes, and it does help with their fine motor skills, but we focus on other ways to do that in the art room.  Button ups lead to problem and takes away from Art time! This seems to be the problem shirt of the year!
• If they have things to tie make sure they are fairly easy to tie, especially for younger students who struggle with this.

Art Recipes to try out sometime with your child:

Online links (view more on the art links page):

Family Education Recipes

Nonedible Art Recipes

Edible Art Recipes

Playdough Recipe

2 cups of flour

1 cup of salt

2 Tablespoons cream of tartar (toothpaste)

1 Cup Hot water

1 Tablespoon Oil

Optional ingredients:

Kool-Aid (for a fruity smell with color)

Paint (for brighter colors)

Food coloring (for bright colors and minty smell)

Mix dry ingredients together.  Add oil (if you add this first the toothpaste won't stick to your spoon), toothpaste.  Mix any food coloring/paint or Kool-Aid into your hot water stir till fully dissolved.  Mix all above ingredients together now.  Sprinkle flour over work area surafce and knead the dough until firm and workable.  Roll, shape and have fun!!!

Craft Clay

4 cups of flour

1 cup of salt

1 1/2 cups of warm water

Combine flour and salt together.  Make well in the center of the dry ingredients and pur warm water.  This is where it gets really fun!!! Mix all the ingredients with your hands!  Add more water when needed.  Dough should form a ball.  Knead the dough on a board/counter until smooth.  Work with a small portion at a time on a piece of foil or wax paper.  Keep the rest of the dough covered so it doesn't dry out.  When sculpture is complete, let dry and bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour or until it hardens.  Dough should not "give" when tapped. 

Sand Modeling

1 cup of sand

1/2 cup of cornstarch

1 t. alum

3/4 cup hot water

food coloring

Mix sand, cornstarch and alum in bowl.  Add hot water and stir vigorously.  Add food coloring.  Cook over medium heat until thick in the pan.  Cool.  Mold or model into objects.  Dry in sunshine foe several days.  Store leftover dough in airtight container.  Makes 2 cups (grainy and stonelike, does not need varnish or shellac for protection).