Half the year is over and it is time to step into color. We started by looking at projected photographs of things that were saturated in color to visually fill the kids up, to saturate them. How do the colors feel in your body? Hot, warm, cool, cold?

The room is set up in different stations. Our goal not think about our art, spending time to make it good, or be judgmental that it isn't, our goal it to see how much we art we can make. QUANITITY VS. QUALITY

Sometimes kids just need to make lots of art. This is a great way to bypass judgments and inner dialogue of being an artist or not, or is it good enough. Even little kids have these thoughts that they have learned that get in the way.

Our Different Stations:

Animals
Overlapping Shapes
People
Hearts (Valentine's Day)
Letters
Numbers

Supplies: WaterColor Crayons and Brushes
White construction paper, Loud music.

Sight to Behold: A young girl came over to me and said, "I hate my picture." I asked her what about the picture did she like? She said, "nothing." I asked her what part of the picture she didn't like, she said, "everything." I said, "cool, since you don't care about this piece of art you can now destroy it with color, mess it up, fill the page, and when you are done you can start another piece."

I was sitting beside her shortly there after and we were all working on our art pieces. There was a point where I asked if I could work on her piece, the one she hated. She passed it over to me. I colored, made some textures and designs and gave it back to her, she worked on it some more and was done and ready to start the next one.

I told her to sign her name to her work and add it to a growing pile of art on the floor. She said "why should I do that, I don't want it?" To everyone surprise, another girl at the table said, "I want it! Can I have it?" The girl who made the art was shocked, it was a beautiful sight to behold, someone wanting something that she created that she hated and didn't want to only be wanted by someone else.