Posted in Crafts in the Classroom, tagged evaluation of art project, evaluation of project on June 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Did students, teacher & artist enjoy the project? Yes we all enjoyed it very much. But it certainly was not effortless.
Students: The boys enjoyed it very much and are proud of their collective achievements.
Teacher: Enjoyed the project but did not realised how much work was involved. She thought that we did a lot of cross [...]
Posted in Crafts in the Classroom, tagged bear game on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We almost pieced everything together but we wanted some time for a game at the end of the session. Next week is going to be the end of the project and we are going to invite another class room to join us to celebrate our achievements.
I put different bear masks on the table and the [...]
Posted in Crafts in the Classroom, tagged save the arctic, ice floe on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes that is the tittle of our project agreed by majority vote. Other tittles where ” Blizzard the king of the Arctic” or “Save the Arctic”. I personally think that this project tittle communicates the whole project very well.
Today we were trying to put all the different pieces together. To be able to do this [...]
Posted in Crafts in the Classroom, tagged artproject, sewing skills, summer school on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the boys is working on Blizzard’s nose. He is using black thread and a large doll makers needle to embroider the nose.
At the beginning of our project we agreed special terms with the boys how to use and behave when applying more dangerous tools in school then usually. One of the conditions [...]
Posted in Crafts in the Classroom on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today was my third day working with the boys on our polar bear project. We were working on our polar bear as well as creating friendship bears.
We had a bit of news today because Gulliver the travel ted came to visit and he is going to stay for a week with the boys in school.
I [...]
Posted in Crafts in the Classroom on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We had our second session with the boys from St.Patrick’s Boys School and it was lively!!!
It was like teaching 8 year old’s to drive a sports car – they just kept the foot on the pedal of the sewing machine and of they went. Never mind the material, it was just too much fun. But [...]
Posted in Crafts in the Classroom on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
2nd & 3rd class from St.Patrick’s Boys National School in Balliamore Co.Leitrim have started their own blog. To read about the crafts in the classroom project follow this link >>> called Saintpatricksschool’s Blog.
Posted in Crafts in the Classroom, tagged craft project on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our Project has started and I am quite excited about it. I am going to work with St.Patrick’s Boys School and especially with 2nd and 3rd class, 23 boys altogether.
Caitriona Mc Manus is the boy’s teacher and enjoys teaching art herself. Both of us are looking forward to work together, to share ideas and experience [...]
Posted in Crafts in the Classroom, tagged crafts in schools on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Craft in the Classroom is a visual arts based educational programme which provides training for makers and teachers in the design and delivery of creative crafts projects for children in classroom contexts. It is based on the 6 strands drawing, paint & colour, print, clay, construction and fabric & fibre as outlined in the Revised [...]
