Happy Spring Break!

Keep creating! There are so many artistic ways to spend your week: sketch outside, paint, build something out of recycled materials, take pictures of your vacation...be inspired!

See you next week!

Mrs. Kirk

Crayon Cupcake Recipe

I'm not much of a baker, but I had a great time making these crayon cupcakes out of old pieces of unwrapped crayon.  Here's the recipe and some pics:

Use a muffin tin lined with paper cups (the foil ones might work better, I had a touch of wax bleed through to my tin) and fill each cup with broken crayon pieces in any color you want.  If you add white pieces, you'll end up with some pretty swirls on the bottoms.  Bake in a pre-heated oven at about 400 degrees.  Watch them closely!!  It only takes a few minutes before they are melted and done!  Take out and cool on a rack until solid.  If the cups are hard to pop out of the tin, simply warm the bottom on the stove.  If your muffin tin gets wax in it, simply warm the bottom of the tin and wipe clean with a paper towel.



Out of the oven and cool. 





These show one with the paper still on, and three with paper removed.



Fabulous Fish Printing!!

Thank you Kim Wallen, our local fish printing artist, for coming to visit the art room during 6th grade Exploratory Class.  She really inspired us to create with fish!  It's a smelly kind of art, but lots of fun.  Check out what we made with a snapper and some ballyhoo:

 

 

 

Sand sculpture fun!!

Our 6th grade honor roll students (2nd quarter) were given a special sand sculpture field trip for all their hard work.  I was the lucky teacher that got to take them!  We had such a great time!