Week 3 Day 5: Last Day

Today me and Bethany worked on the iPad. I painted with Bethany and also watched Susan with Bethany do a play. Art Camp rocked!

Drawing, Painting and Mural Making

As promised, we have made available many forms of art education learning opportunities, but drawing and painting is a staple that we enjoy doing. Seven year old Zachy and five year old Noah are amazing in their use of books as a resource material to enhance their drawing experience. Zachy informed me he has read several books from the Harry Potter series allready!

Week 3 Day 4

Lets build a wall. The kids today Were active in a lot of play today. Story telling, play writing and good old individual play time. Several of the kids started painting a mural. Working large is a lot different than working small. Kids learned to step back from the painting to take in the whole image, adjust colors add detail.











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BPS Thespians

Zachy, Jenna, Susan and Kelby with the help of a special guest tell the story of a princess who is torn between accepting her royal post as queen or saving a pig.

I Want My Mummy!!

Jenna and Zachy collaborated on this story and film with special guest appearance by Noah!
Music by Etienne Michelet.

Experimental Dance Theatre

Jenna, Susan and Bethany collaborate, co-direct and star in their own dance performance piece!
Music by Deep Sky Divers

Week 3 Day 3

Lots of energy today.

Week 3 Day 2

Today in Blocks Paper Scissors I made a marble run and I drew a picture that said "Art." But I threw it away. We got together to start doing a play about a pig. I also did stamping. My favorite thing to do was making a marble run.

Garrett T.

Some of the students used the iPad today to paint pictures. I found it very interesting to watch how easily they learned to use new technology.

Other students started making pillows and sewing.

Kinetic Sculpture Art

Improvisational Theatre

What happens when Blocks Paper Scissors Campers take a break from making art? A morning of improvisational theatre! We had a play about a poison apple, a lost piggy, and lots of giggles and laughs!

Week Three Campers Going to Town!

Stop-motion

Here are a couple movies I made of kids drawing and painting.

Week 3 Day 1

Hello, my name is Susan Cerulli, I am a second grader at Sugar Creek Elementary School. Today at Blocks, Paper Scissors I learned how to sew a pillow. I learned how to do a backstitch. I like my pillow it looks good. I got hot glue on my knee and it hurt. I also helped Bethany make a marble run. The other kids are painting pictures, making marble runs and using stamps. I think the first day was good, it was really fun.

Susan C

Wrapping up week 2

The boys and girls worked really hard on their last day of camp and were rewarded with the famous swordfish piñata break. The kids made cardboard airplanes, painted the swordfish, paper airplanes, origami, mural painting, cardboard construction.














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More from the beehive

Mr Gaw works with Zach on the new Lucas Oil Stadium. The detail and imagination of the stadium was amazing.

Ben is making some final additions to the Ultimate Marble Run.

Nick and Mason took to the printmaking center and begin to cut into their linoleum blocks.

Marble Stampede!!

What happens when 20 marbles race to the finish on Marble Run Number 1?
We wondered what would happen if we did this on Ben's Ultimate Marble Run!!

The Ultimate Marble Run

After a week of hard work, the marble run is finished. Not that we could have worked on it forever. It was a real joy to work with Ben on this. While working on this marble run, we had to do a lot of creative thinking, engineering and experimentation. We learned about materials, gravity, elasticity, velocity, and aesthetics. It was certainly a hit with the others in the classroom. Please leave a comment.

Blocks Paper Scissors wk 2 day 3

Today was fun! I made a garage out of cardboard today for my stuffed animal. She is a Dalmatian dog. I also did printmaking. I made my name and the word peace. I made a paper airplane and it really flies. And then I got to write the blog.





Kaitlin J.

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A Miniature Structure, Marble Run Racing, New Marble Run Track and a Marble Eyed Puppet!!

Story Narrative by David

David has been working on a series of spine tingling drawings related to tornado devastation in Texas. In this dramatic scene, right after an alert from the National Weather Service, a cow, farmer and farm buildings were swept away by a huge tornado!

Marble Run Engineering Process

Ben and Mr. Fralick calibrate marble speed and distance for additional elements to Marble Run Structure #2.

Art Camp Week 2 Day 2

Today was so much fun! My favorite part was when I got to print block. I love art!

Allison S.

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Blocks, Paper, Scissors Mon. Blog

Today at art camp we painted, drew, worked on the marble runs, and made movies. Marble Run #2 is half finished and Marble Run #1 is still being rebuilt from storage. Everybody had lots of fun. Be tuned for more updates on the blog!

Ben. B.

Animation, Animation, Animation

We had a very productive week with many great kids. It was so inspiring to be surrounded by such fun and creative kids. I wanted to share a couple stop-motion movies the kids made. They were very excited about the process and I look forward to the next week to see what happens.

Alien Attack by David and Peyton

Crackers Doom by Evan and David

Paint fort, marble run, Harry potter drawing, podcast number2, piñata, garage band, we made pottery on the iPad

We finished our Harry Potter drawing. We painted our fort. We also made a new marble run. I made a podcast number 2. We beat are piñata. We learned garage band on the Mac computer. We played pottery on the iPad. That's all we did today.

We also made a podcast that you can listen to here



Evan

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Art camp day 4

Today we added to a fort we made yesterday. We also added to a marble run. Then we ran the marble run. It worked! That was fun. We also traced a life-size Harry Potter poster. We also did a podcast that you can listen to here.  Mr.Gaw also made a piñata. That was all.

David B.

Marble Run

Peyton, Evan, David and the rest of the boys and girls have been working on our marble run throughout the week. Here is what they have so far:

Animation's, marble run,and forts.

We are Working on the marble run. We are adding a couple more things on it. Evan and David are building a fort. They are adding a couple more things on it. We made animations like the cracker's doom part two. We are working on Alien attack part 1and 2.

Evan Rudicle

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Marble Run and Airplane Building

Today we worked on the marble run. we added a section with zig zags.The whole thing works really well.Today we also made a bunch of cardboard airplanes.We added bombs and missiles.Today was the best day so far.That's my opinion.






Peyton Miller

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State of the Art

What a blast this morning!! Mr. Fralick had his stop action animation equipment out and we started our camp with a BANG!! We are bringing in another computer tomorrow and more hot glue sticks! Our marble run got a make over, and our puppet centers started to get some use at the end of camp today. Several campers were making drawings and paintings based on their knowledge of surrealism and past memories. Some very compelling work today by our students aged 10-6. Buckminster Fuller doesn't have anything on us!!

First day of camp. Woo Hoo!

Awesome! What a great start to Blocks, Paper, Scissors.
The first day of TAB camp was great. Mr. Gaw and I set out as many centers as we could think of and the kids just moved. It was great to see some kids make several artworks based on memories of a storm, while others experimented with cardboard construction, collage and painting. We even got to play with the iPad!. Later on, some students started working on stop-frame animation projects. It was all great stuff to see.  

Welcome Campers!!

Mr. Fralick and I have been working with elementary children since 1984. We know the best kinds of art experiences are ones that are meaningful to the learners. One of the main strategies we employ at Blocks-Paper-Scissors is the facilitation and refinement of student's art ideas. Artists create ideas from a combination of five internal sources: emotion, observation, imagination, memory and experimentation. How do meaningful art education experiences occur? When children become the planners and designers of their artistic experiences, just like real artists, meaningful learning and creative growth occurs. Art activities and the creative experience in and of itself become personally rewarding for children in our classrooms.

We are so happy we could work with the folks at Indy Parks this year. My special thanks go to Linda Fink, Park Manager of Post Road Community Park. We have a beautiful space this year to work in. We are planning on opening the following centers at Blocks-Paper-Scissors Summer Art Camp: drawing, painting, collage, cardboard construction, block construction, textiles, printmaking, puppet theater and much more.

To read more about the choice based art program at New Palestine Elementary check this link:
www.clydegaw.blogspot.com .
Or check out the Sugar Creek Website @ http://bit.ly/j2d4Rj