Live Art, Breathe Art: crafting

Thursday, December 3, 2015

How to Make Snow Globes

This month during our Art Club meeting, we made some hanging globes and snow globes using easy to find materials. I will create another post on how to make the hanging globes.

How to make Snow Globes:

Materials:
Cereal Boxes
Snow (Mixture of Fine Salt and Extra Fine Glitter)
Scissors
Hot Glue Gun
Hot Glue Sticks
Clear Plastic Drinking Cups
Doilies
Miniature figurines (Walmart or local dollar store)

Step 1: Trace your clear plastic drinking cup onto a cereal box or other type of thin cardboard. We used M&M , Pasta, and Bisquick boxes.

Step 2: Cut out your circle(s)

Step 3: Glue doily to cardboard circle

Step 4: Use Hot Glue to attach a miniature figurine onto the center of your doily that has been glued to a cardboard circle.

Step 5: Pour salt and extra fine glitter into your clear plastic cup.

Step 6: Add hot glue to the rim of the cup.

Step 7: Attach cardboard with miniature figurine to cup.

Step 8: Flip snow globe over and attach pipe cleaner to the rim of the glass.

Congratulations, you are done! Now you can gift these to your family, friends, co-workers!

Student Work Examples:

JMS Art Club

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Art Club makes Tote Bags from Old Tees!

This summer I attended Texas Public Radio's Art of Recycling event where Spare Parts was teaching the public how to re-purpose old tees. I loved this project so much that I decided it would be the perfect recycling project to kick off the first Art Club meeting of the 2015-2016 school year!

Art club spent the afternoon making cute tote bags from old tees that would have been otherwise discarded and we had a blast! I was excited to have a full classroom of over 26 students that filled the room with chatter, laughter, and best of all recycling!

You too can make your own tote bag by following the tutorial below:

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Thursday, December 3, 2015

How to Make Snow Globes

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Art Club makes Tote Bags from Old Tees!