1st Days of Art: 4th Grade

4th graders began art with another creativity challenge.  This one, along with many of the others, are inspired by challenges I participated in this summer while attending the Teaching for Creativity Institute at the Columbus Museum of Art.

Students, in groups of 3 and 4, were given a bag with an assortment of materials including and old CD, popsicle sticks, markers, rubber bands, paper clips and a sock.  Their challenge was to work together to create a sculpture that showed an emotion.

One group working together on their
sculpture of "amazement."  Their
inspiration was coral and scuba diving.
"We thought
that it would feel amazing to go scuba
diving and do something you've never
done before."

First and foremost, I was blown away by their collaboration!

Students demonstrated respect for each other, listened to one another's ideas, and compromised.  I was also inspired by their experimentation and creative thinking.

"Curiosity" 

                                               

 This group's strategy was to experiment and build first, and then to think about what emotion it reminded them of.  This is actually their second sculpture, because the first one fell down.  Students thought this sculpture reminded them of destruction, because it looked like a saw and was made from the destruction of their first idea.  When we were sharing the creations with the class, a classmate thought it looked like uncertainty, because the hanging pieces looked like they were about to fall off.