Carnival crafts won't end any time soon and our second grader's made a clown gang from scratch yesterday!
Our clowns found their place under our Smurf village (the final version of which I haven't showed you yet, but is coming up on one of the next posts).
The materials? All easy to find around the house, toilet paper rolls, paper and stapler. I printed the faces, bodies, shoes and hands and gave them to the children. They colored their clowns however they liked and then cut the pieces. I fixed the pieces on the paper rolls and our project started to look like this!
Colorful clowns, boys and girls, sat on one of our bookcase shelf. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough time to finish our background and we'll have to spend another lesson on coloring clowns to fill up the rest of the back of that shelf.
I tried the same project with a class of older kids, but they weren't as excited and satisfied as the second graders. I need to find something better to impress them and keep them interested, although I find older classes a lot more challenging to work with. They get bored more easily, they refuse to work during Art class and misbehave a lot. I wonder when does that change occur from easy-going kids to impertinent pre-teens and how can we, teachers, help when nothing seems to work with them... Oops, seems like I got out of topic here.
Anyway, our clowns are so happy to meet you and we (the easy going second graders) are so happy to have them in our classroom!!
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