Lyndon House Field Trip
My teacher won a grant to take the whole 3rd grade on a field trip to the Lyndon House and get a tour of the Ware House (First Mayor of Athens' home) and got to work for two full hours in a studio of their choice. They got to pick from:
Paper Making
Leather Working
Jewelry
Pottery
Felting
Printmaking
I was in charge of staying with the paper making group which was an awesome experience for me and the students. They have so much personality and interests that rose up so many good questions. We learned how to make paper using recycled shreddings of paper and water mixed together in a blender. I have never made paper before so this was all new to me and I learned a ton! Half the group made sheets of paper using metal mesh screens while the other half of the group experimented with marbling. We used colored shaving cream/foam for the medium and put two colors together in a pile stirring it but not mixing it too much to give a tye dye effect. They then laid a precut piece of card stock in the pile of foam and lifted up and scraped it off with a piece of cardboard to create a marbled bookmark. They then decorated with it stamps, string, beads, markers, and different shaped hole punchers.
I got the opportunity to work along side the chair of the Art Ed department, Jim Woglom. He is an amazing professor at UGA who spends alot of time working at the Lyndon House, and helping prepare future art educators at the University of Georgia. He is such an inspiration and is really fun to work with.
This is pure happiness at it's finest. The kids only get come to art once a week for 45 minutes, which isn't near enough time to really practice and perfect a certain art practice. Having this two hour studio art time allowed the kids to make multiple sheets of different colored paper also while learning where paper comes from and what kinds of materials can be used to create it.
Here is a group picture of us behind all of the paper we made!
