Coaxing creativity from kids at Mountain Lake Public Library event
“Miss Art” (a.k.a. former Mountain Lake Public School art teacher Nancy Nelson) spent Wednesday afternoon, April 2, demonstrating to elementary-age students that harnessing one’s creativity – and expressing it through art work – is another way of communicating one’s thoughts and visions.
A “Kids Art” time was held at Mountain Lake Public Library, with students divided into two age groups – kindergarten-through-grade three and grade four-through-grade six.
Below are some photographs from the two art projects undertaken by the pair of groups:
THE YOUNGER ELEMENTARY students took to creating their own Easter Bunny in the spirit of the season. No pencils were allowed to draw rabbit ears, eyes or whiskers, with the students encouraged to only cut out the shapes as their mind’s eye saw them. Accents included perhaps a bow tie, necklace, top hat – whatever idea came to mind. Markers and pom poms – as well as a balloon nose – completed the rabbits.
LYDIA CAVANAUGH ATTACHES her rabbit’s ears with brass fasteners.
MISS ART (NANCY Nelson), right, assists Carsen Hopper, left, with his rabbit’s ears.
NOAH WOLLE’S FACIAL expression displays his level of concentration as he snips out his rabbit’s whiskers.
BROOKE NAAS, LEFT, and Annika Brinkman, right, seem to be working in tandem on their respective rabbits as they draw on noses, pupils in the eyes and red rabbit tongues with markers.
THIRD-GRADER ALANA Morey checks out her rabbit to make sure it is completed to her satisfaction.
KELBY JANZEN WITH her completed Easter Bunny.
PINK IS THE theme for Julia Brinkman’s Easter Bunny – pink ears, pink balloon nose and nose – all to match the pink piping on her jacket.
ARTISTS IN GRADES 4-6 worked on “pop-art” projects, employing the idea of dimension to art work, their completed projects popping up off their construction paper canvas.
MISS ART, LEFT, gives fourth-grader Kolby Kremmin, right a “thumbs-up” on the beginning steps on his art project.
USING GREEN PIPE cleaners as flower stems, Connie Sengmany starts work on making her flower garden pop up off the paper.
TITO KHOUNSANTHONE EMPLOYS a wide variety of pop-up medium to use on his art project.
