Friday Morning with Wayne Thiebaud

Today's classes were all about DELICIOUS DESSERTS!  I love Wayne Thiebaud, his personality and his artwork.   There are countless ideas floating around out there for lessons inspired by his work.   I used the help of some great ones to create these lessons for my Friday morning crew!  I'm hungry!

Thanks to the art blogs of kids-finelines.blogspot.com, the greenbayartroom.blogspot.com, and the second grade teacher at my kiddos school for helping me figure out the perfect concoction of glue to shaving cream ratio for "frosting!"  It is so amazing!  And so simple!   For moms who want to try it:  Squirt in shaving cream, and pour in some elmers, and a dollop of  paint (I used acrylic), let the kid's stir, and enjoy!  Works great for snow if you keep it white with some silver glitter too!

The "middle crew" worked on casting animal masks during the other classes.  These masks will be for Tinga Tinga art on our last week.

After viewing Wayne's work, my older student and I discussed how to use shading with oil pastels to create dimension in our cake.    This was a good lesson for drawing as well!  He did an AMAZING JOB!   (Background was chalk pastels).

Awesome work with shading!!!

Next up, my "middles" learned out to make and stack cylinders, and then used chalk pastels to color in and design their cakes after a practice run with pencils and scratch paper.

YUM!!!  Beautiful job!

 And my youngest crew!   First we decorated the liners with oil pastels, and added paint to rice to make "sprinkles".

 Then, with the amazing mix of glue, shaving cream, and paint, we stirred our frosting mix, and spread it on!  Even little sis "K" got into the action.

 Sprinkles!

Who wants DESSERT?   Great job boys! (and little "K"!)