April Free Draw Challenge!

Here is April’s free draw challenge.  I am attempting to upload a printable version… free draw challenge april

Art Journal: Weaving

After taking a few weeks off from art journaling, we are cracking the spines and jumping back into filling our pages with personal and meaningful artwork. Today was a catch up day so I let the kids have some free time with their books to get them back into the journaling. Before the end of the class, I showed them a bit about what we would be doing next week: mixed media weaving. I encouraged the kids to bring in scraps from home to add to the scraps I’ll have for them to use. Here is my example. I’ll post pics of theirs as we go!

Fifth grade altered book art journals

So I’m venturing into a new territory with my fifth graders this year. We are attempting to alter books and make them into art journals. Luckily, there are TONS of websites and blogs about this art form.
Our school librarian cleaned out the shelves this year and I snagged enough of the old books for my fifth graders to each have their own. I went ahead and primed the covers with just cheap primer to give them a not-so-shiny surface to start on.
We started mod-podging newspaper over the covers and next week we will decorate with all kinds of stuff (color tissue paper, buttons, puff paint, sequins, stickers, etc).
The kids seem really excited about it and I’m looking forward to seeing them evolve.

If you’re interested in doing this with your classes or just on your own, I found some of my best info here: ArtJournalist.com
Also, Daisy Yellow is a fantastic artist and she also shares great information about supplies.