My sweet, sweet little brother Jacob knows how much I love art. He also knows how much I love to get new ideas to teach art to kids. Because he knows all of this about me, he loves to share things that he has done with his art at his elementary school. (Yes, he is that much younger than me.)
One day he was even kind enough to send me home with his art book he had created. Apparently at his school they have a full time art teacher who goes from room to room with an art cart. One year she had each student make an art book. That is what you see in the pictures above. She collected the hard brown cardboard on the back of all the spiral bound notebooks she could find, then cut each in half. One note book would make the front and back cover of his art book. She let the kids decorate their covers. Then they used 4 pieces of construction paper to make the pages. (As you can see in the third picture.) Each page was folded in half and the book closed acordian style. Each art element she taught was in the book and labeled. Some extra pieces of paper were glued on top of the original paper, to add new assignments. What I liked about this idea is the same thing that Jacob liked about it, you could see all the things he had learned throughout the year.
The reason I post this idea today is because I thought that since it is a new school year, you might like to start this at the beginning of the year. Then, when your cute students go home at the end of the school year, they can show their cool big sisters, or just their moms all of the wonderful things they had learned. They also can have a reference point to look back at and a great momento of that wonderful time they had as you taught them.
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