Origami Ball Tutorial

Hey everyone!  I just posted a tutorial on how to make one of the Origami balls my 5th graders made on the main blog!  Click and try it yourself!  It's not the easiest to explain through pictures so feel free to email me or comment below if you have and questions!

In other news: February break is over and this was the first week back from school and I must say I missed it!  I am so excited to start some new projects with my students!  This month is going to be packed with quite a few three-dimensional creations!  I can't wait, though where in the world am I going to fit all of them!

Sumi Ink Painting: 1st Grade

First grade “traveled” to Asia to study traditional sumi ink painting. Artists there practice for many years, and work with very controlled brush strokes. We then discussed value: lights and darks and others in between. If we add more water to our ink, it gets lighter, the less water, the darker the ink will be. To sign our work we made our own “chops” or seals. We discovered we had to write our initials backwards so they would print forwards.