Snowman And Reindeer Pompoms

Middle School - Craft

For the Christmas season, kids that were done with their Snowflake (link soon) and other assignments had the option of making a pompom snowman, reindeer and/or Santa.

We got a whole herd of reindeer and several snowmen but only one Santa. A few sheep where thrown in there too for good measure. There were pieces of yarn everywhere!

The kids were overjoyed with their creations, myself as well, as they are the cutest things. Notice "cool Santa" has sun glasses on and so does his reindeer.

Vase Faces Reversible Images

High School - Art1 - Elements of Art: Positive/Negative Space

We were studying a concept called "Reversible Figure-Ground Relationship," which is a fancy way of saying Visual Illusion. The idea is that it is hard to tell which part of the image is the "figure" - or "positive" shape/space, i.e. actual object drawn - and which part is the "ground" - or "negative" shape/space, i.e. background.

You've seen these images that flip back and forth when you change your eye focusing while looking at them, like this one for example:

Which do you see? The young woman or the old lady?

Paper Flowers With Table Centerpiece

High School - Craft


This wonderful craft is very easy to do and is even more amazing looking than I had anticipated. The kids did a wonderful job with their flowers. They look as close to real as you can get with paper.

Glass bottles are wrapped with yarn of several colors according to taste, with glue being spread on the bottle every so often to prevent the yarn from unwrapping. Pretty easy.

As for the flowers, well, a quick search online will result in plenty of instructions.

Meanwhile, enjoy the pictures: