Saving Time and Money While Maintaining Quality
Suzanne Butler-Lich arteech@aol.com
Independence
 Teach students skills early
 Let them fail and be supportive and positive
Responsibility
 Team or table leaders
 Teach and expect everyone is responsible
 Conservation
o Students are expected to take care of materials
Glue bottles
Brushes
o Portion Control
o Model and reward acts of conservation
Organization
 Storage- clear plastic food containers
 Materials-frequently used items stored together, precut paper, paper scraps
Consistency
 Material distribution
 Clean up and dismissal
Creative Problem Solving
 Students problem solve corrections
 Recycle- Reuse
o Containers for storage
o Materials for lessons
Lessons:
 Paint to music using water colors or tempera followed up by embellishing with old markers.
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Stella style, relief using old file folders, paint and old markers.
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Pop Art and Color Theory based on Jim Dine’s “Heart” series. Tempera, Cut paper and old
markers
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Clown “soft” relief sculpture (great problem solving lesson) connected to Calder’s Circus (You
Tube clips) and “Sandy’s Circus” – donated fabric, felt, trim, buttons, holiday trim, ribbons and
“goodies”, poster board scraps, file folders, left over yarn.
To save time background was a short lesson on Positive and Negative Space.
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Personal Statement based on Bearden’s Collages. Setting, Characters, Plot
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Calder wire sculpture using the wire from the fluorescent light balusters, string, pipe cleaners
beads, buttons, straw pieces.
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Box Sculptures (Dragons, Masks, People)
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3 Day Paper Mache mask- paper plate- tag (file folders) features with one layer of construction
paper instead of painting. Details with paper and oil pastels.