Around the World Intramural (Week 2) - Africa

The second country we explored was Africa. One of the art forms in Africa is the creative dying of material. Our artists got a tie dye effect on socks by using sharpies and rubbing alcohol. Mrs. Beck and I  dripped rubbing alcohol on the designs to cause the colors to bleed out to resemble tie dye. This method was used since our time was limited.

Some of our artists decided to make orange and black Central SPIRIT socks. They always come up with the best ideas!

 

They had a great time playing African drums and learning an African song!

Around the World Intramural (Week 1) - China

Mrs. Beck, our music teacher and I are teaching the students in our after school intramural a song and visual art from six different countries. Our first country was China. We all had a great time as we practiced painting the Chinese symbols for the letters of our names in calligraphy.

Our ATW artists used a watercolor brush and India ink to paint the combination of lines that made up the Chinese letters of their name.

         
                   Everyone did a great job filling the space with the Chinese letters for their name..

 After the ink dried they used a glue stick or stapler to add a bright red paper frame.