Crayon Drip Pumpkins - Elementary Art Cubs

What do you do with a bunch of broken crayons or used crayons without wrappers?  You use them in a creative project and melt them over pumpkins!  The Art Cubs (Climax Springs Elementary Art Club) met this month and created crayon drip/melt pumpkins.

Have a bunch of crayons you don't use?

Students carefully using the hot glue gun at their station.  Upper elementary students used the glue guns to decorate their pumpkins with crayons they selected and prepared.  Younger elementary students selected predesigned pumpkins.

Safety First.

Ready for the melting!

Using the hair dryer on high to melt the crayons.  Placing the pumpkin in a bucket helps catch all the spatter from flying wax

Students just love melting stuff.  Look at all of those happy faces.

Crayon drip photo bomb!

How do you keep 27 elementary students busy and happy while they wait to melt crayons or keep them occupied after they've finished? Color pages!  27 students, 4 grade levels, 3 hot glue guns, 3 hot air dryers, 1 art teacher.  We have sharing and waiting going on. So proud of these students and their patience, helpfulness and good manners.

Artifact of coloring and cutting skills. Good job P!

2nd graders go outside for some observation drawing

Second grade students took their chairs, drawing boards and art supplies outside this week to observe the great outdoors.  Students studied the landscape and learned terms like horizon line and perspective.  Students began observational landscape drawings of the fields behind our school.

Student are using simple shapes and lines to create their landscape drawings.  Once sketched out, students will then fill in their shapes with lines and values, creating a simplified, abstract landscape.  Check back in to see end results.

Kinders explore nature and printmaking

The Kindergarten class went outdoors on a mini fieldtrip and explored trees.  We discussed the parts of trees and then picked a variety of leaves.  Once we returned back to the art room, we investigated printmaking.

Students were introduced to vocabulary such as brayer, plate, ink, water soluble and palate.  Students watched a demonstration on how to pull the ink down into the palate, charge the brayer (load it) with ink, apply the ink to the leaf and create a print.  Students learned they could reuse the inked leaf after they pulled it from making a print and create a second leaf print, that was a little fainter, also called a ghost print.

The Elementary Art Club has now formed!!!! Dawn of the drawing machines.

For the first time, possibly ever, Climax Springs now has an elementary art club.  Today we met for the first time and WOW, check out the turn out!  We opened with the suggestion of names for the elementary art club and the selection of such name.  Then we began our first exploration challenge.  Students explored the idea of drawing machines.  Students took markers and attached them to electric toothbrushes, child toys and remote control cars and allowed the "machine" to have some control over the act of drawing.

The elementary art club's first meeting-The MS/HS art club met as well and then moved their meeting to the hall.

A packed house ready to begin a fun, artistic journey

Planning the next move

The "drawing machines" rumbled, shook, turned and jittered as they made multiple marks across drawing surfaces (including the art room tile floor).  The students worked in teams of 2,3,4 and 5's to discuss how changing the position of the markers, attached using Velcro, rubber bands or tape, would affect the drawing results.  Many smiles, giggles, "oh wow's" and "let me try's" were present this afternoon.  Our first meeting has been a success. - Mr. Harris