Festival of Trees
Christmas Cookies
with ceramic ornaments made by 3rd Graders
Sculpting the Christmas cookie ornaments out of clay was a fun endeavor for the 3rd graders. They look forward to helping raise money for the children at Primary Children’s Hospital. As a team they each painted cookie-colored glaze (ceramic paint) around the edges of their ceramic cookie. They then painted different colors on the center of their design to look like the frosting. The tree topper was designed by a Junior Art Ambassador (in the 4th/5th grade art club).
Cookie Cutter Cheer
with ceramic ornaments made by 4th Graders
Sculpting the Christmas cookie ornaments out of clay was a delight for the 4th graders. They are excited to help raise money for the children at Primary Children’s Hospital. The three 4th grade classes brainstormed ideas for a theme. After each class came up with the idea of Christmas cookies, the art teacher knew it was the right fit for them! They picked cookie cutters to cut out cookie shapes from slabs of clay. Then, they added their individual touch. Some 4th grade students created the tree topper as a team.
Winter Wonderland
with beaded ornaments made by 5th Graders
Beadwork is tricky for anyone, but the fifth graders handled this like busy elves! Students focused on learning radial symmetry by creating naturally unique, symmetrical patterns for all the snowflakes, having been inspired by the uniqueness of real snowflakes. To unify all the diversity, they shared the same color scheme of beads with each other. Four Junior Art Ambassadors (in the 4th/5th grade art club) created the tree topper to match.
As Sweet as Angels
with ornaments painted by kindergarteners
Kindergarteners and an angelic theme fit together well. Some had never painted like this before, and they loved making something that involved a permitted mess in the process! A group of 4th graders helped glue the parts together. A fourth grade Junior Art Ambassador (in the 4th/5th grade art club) drew and painted the tree topper.
Christmas Candy Land
with ornaments made by Middle Schoolers
Middle schoolers are into sweets, and have fun creating ornaments “made from candy.” The ornaments aren’t made of real candy, but students got to imagine it as they sketched their design to fit the theme, then made their sketch into its 3D manifestation. Many of them created an ornament with the inspiration that it was molded from chocolate; as well as colored, white chocolate. The graphic design class designed their ornaments in software called TinkerCAD, then 3D printed them, and painted them with acrylic paint. The 6th grade art class sculpted theirs out of ceramic clay. Enjoy the diversity of these students’ talents!
I am very proud of the Channing Hall students loving and caring for their contribution to the trees, as part of raising money for Primary Children’s Hospital. The Channing Hall trees raised a total of $3,650 at the festival!
Student Online Galleries
There are two digital galleries to view our wonderful Channing Hall students’ artwork! These are great ways to share their creativity with others and anyone you invite to see their amazing creations!
First, our collaborative art projects are on this site. Second, you can view the art gallery on Artsonia.
Sometimes students’ artwork may be posted on Artsonia by the art teacher, but parents may add or remove artwork on Artsonia any time they want.
If a student has not been automatically added to Artsonia, they may add themselves to the school gallery by going to artsonia.com/parents, clicking “Sign up”, and entering the school code (you may email Ms. Bradbury for the school code: mbradbury@channinghall.org).
Video tutorial for Artsonia on a tablet.
Tutorials Miss Bradbury made for using Artsonia on a Chromebook
8th Gr. Artist Trading Cards
A legacy binder is being kept in the art room for students graduating from Channing Hall to leave an Artist Trading Card. After I (Ms. Bradbury) trade an ATC (Artist Trading Card) with them, I’ll slip their card into a protective sheet in the binder that is for keeping in the art room, so that anyone visiting the art room may view the collection of graduate Artist Trading Cards.
Family Conceptual Art Game
It’s inspired by Conceptual Art, particularly that of an artist named Sol LeWitt. He created open-ended instructions for making art, and allowed others to then make the art. The fascinating thing is that everyone can follow the same instructions, and yet end up with very different art!
I made a Conceptual Art Game that was posted as a family activity Fall 2021. It’s posted here in case you would like to play it with your family.
It was fun, and I want to share that fun with your families!
I made this to be a chance to think of the fun times with your family. So, the question prompts go something like this: “How many places did your family travel together to last year? Draw a triangle for each place. If you want, you can make the triangles bigger or smaller to represent how long your family spent there.”
To prepare for the art game, you’ll need a graph paper for each person that is joining you. You can download a printable one below.
Here is the link to the slideshow with the ten “instructions” for drawing conceptual art with your family: Family Art Game Prompts
Here is the video in which I provide an example of how to play: Family Art Game Example
Privacy
Students names are not posted here on this website, nor photos of the students or any such thing. Artwork and music is posted without this identifying information, unless a parent specifically gives permission for it.