Organized Chaos: An Elementary School Art Room: Dinner Party in the Art Room!

...A Dinner Party, in an Art Room, with three year olds?!...

I know, you probably think I'm crazy right now, but IT WAS AWESOME! previously I posted about a project(CLICK HERE!) where a parent volunteer came in to lead and work with students to look at art, interpret, and then be inspired to create their own. Well, Mrs. Phaedra (Otherwise called Augusta's Mom) out did herself! We looked at the concept of The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago (just the ideas of place settings of course-for those of you who know more about the piece...). Phaedra worked to envision, collect, and drill all of the materials to the bamboo serving trays for students to create and collage upon their own food and things they'd like at their dinner party!

Students were given those AWESOME Tempera Playcolor Sticks (Check out the blog post on them HERE!) to begin their artwork with, then after 10-15 minutes of paint creation, we brought out a variety of supplies to collage onto the plates as well! The final touch was putting tissue paper in the glasses to represent what they students would drink at their dinner party. I think my favorite and funniest quote came from Eliot, who put brown tissue paper in his cup. I assumed this was chocolate milk however he informed me it was his Dad's DIET COKE! He then talked to me for about fiver minutes about how he loves to steal sips of his Dad's Diet Coke!

Check out some pictures of the process, and final results. We had a BLAST! And a very special THANK YOU to MRS. PHAEDRA for making this possible and such a hit success!!