Saturday, March 15, 2008

Funny Faces



Last fall I was asked by a friend of mine to come into her kindergarten classroom and talk about fabric. It was just as general as that. Oh, and there were two classrooms. And I would have 30 minutes in each. That's all. One half hour. So I thought about just doing a project, but that wouldn't really teach them anything and I did want to do that. So I put four different fabrics together on a safety pin, enough for each child. I had wool, cotton, silk, and polar fleece. Then I printed out large photos of sheep, a silkworm, a cotton plant and a pile of plastic bottles., and we had a very short discussion of what they felt like and where they came from. From there we went to our project which was making funny faces. I had the bases all fused to the backgrounds and lots of fused shapes which they placed where they wanted them and I ironed down. It was really fun and didn't take long, yet they could let their creativity take over.

I apologize for the terrible photoshopped pictures, but of course I couldn't show you all the darling kids holding up their work. They were the best part.

4 comments:

Deborah Boschert said...

Genius! So wonderful.

Anonymous said...

What a great project. I love the variety of the faces. What a great way to teach kids about fabric.

Leah said...

what a FUN and creative project! how awesome. And I LOVE LOVE LOVE the colors in your work in progress in your post below. also, the beads in your header are beautiful. I'm just blog-hopping but i'll definitely bookmark yours.
Leah

Anonymous said...

Bridget wants to know if you do second grade classes or birthday parties