Youth Arts Festival Day 2 and Day 3

Day 2 and Day 3

Youth Arts Festival 2016! 

Lego Art

Pop Art Day, Comic Books, Cartoons, Pop Culture

Princesses, My Little Pony (Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity), Link from Legend of Zelda, Mine Craft ghasts

Ultimate Lego Design

Wings, Mosaic, and Vignette

Story and Snack for older kids

My daughter read almost nothing but bad Kitty Books for all of second grade, so she insisted we feature this in our story class for my son entering 2nd grade.

"Bad Kitty" by Nick Bruel

• Nutella Sandwich w/ M&M's and marshmallows
• tuna and crackers
• goldfish

"Roger the Jolly Pirate" by Brett Helquist

• Pizza
• Olives
• Pepperoni
• Jolly Ranchers

Edible Story Art

Monkey and Rabbit

Mine Craft Art

Another LEGO ART class

Mini World: Cabin by a lake

The arts council asked me to teach another LEGO class. This time for 12-18 year olds instead of 5-7 and 8-11. I honestly did my favorite 10 projects last year and think its great for any age, but they requested different more advanced stuff, hoping that something unusual would entice the older kids to sign up.

So instead of basic bricks, I had somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 various LEGO pieces of every imaginable type. The last day I brought a scale and each student got to take home 2 pounds (about 600 pieces) of LEGO, whatever they wanted from the class set. I called it Pick-a-Brick day, that was a big hit.

The projects were much more complex and visually less impressive than the bright basic Lego brick sculptures of last year, but they loved the challenge of building with so many special LEGO elements. One student said the last day, "this is a pricey class but definitely worth it" All the other students agreed. Yay, just what a teacher likes to hear.

Technic Thing-a-ma-jigs


LEGO vignettes




Miniland size 3 1/2 inch figurines:
Ninja



Planets Day: We built Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, the international space station, and Pluto which is not a planet (therefore didn't take many LEGO bricks, heh, heh).




Spaceships and Planes (a LEGO art project back by popular demand):


Youth Arts Festival, Artist Reception

LEGO art

Every year our city does an arts festival for kids 3-18 yrs old. It lasts two weeks and kids can be in a musical, show choir, dance class, creative writing, arts and crafts, photography, or even a LEGO art class.

The LEGO teacher was having a baby this year and since they didn't want to cancel it, I got to teach it!

I have nearly 1000 pictures and in LEGO everything is good, but I have to put up a few to share.

A project by AJ on the "Things that Fly" day, she had named her bird Tucie.


When I was planning the class J said, "mommy, the class should have rubber bands" boy was he right. I had quite a few projects over the two weeks feature rubber bands.

a mosaic planned with LEGO brick artist paper



"things with wheels"


"hole punch and card", a huge thanks to the author of filth wizardry blog for helping me out on this one. She pioneered hole punch and card and she was kind enough to write a note I could share in class that encouraged the kids to make one of a kind projects which they really took to heart and kept referring to throughout the rest of the festival.


a most creative interpretation of "things that fly".


a marble maze, these were a huge hit...


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