I was super excited to see that my new classroom was equipped with awesome ceiling black lights, so obviously I took the opportunity to create a number of spooky black light art projects during the month of October- with some fun Halloween music to amp up the atmosphere of course. Our focus for this project was everything bones! The fourth graders created animal skeletons and skulls to go along with our nature unit and the fifth graders learned about Dia De Los Muertos and created black light sugar skull portraits. It is amazing to see all of the crazy ideas the students come up with on their own. In addition to all my regular classes I have 3 "enrichment" blocks where I see some classes twice. The fourth graders enjoyed a fun game of "The Exquisite Corpse" which we decorated with neon hi-lighter and the fifth grade create some Yayoi Kusama inspired patterned pumpkins- which I highly recommend getting more than one stapler to put together, preferably one that doesn't jam every four seconds :/ I know everyone will be sad when we move on to other non-black light art, but I plan to have a longer more intense black light project when we have our Art Night in the Spring- stay tuned!
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AuthorI am currently an elementary Art Teacher in Barrington, RI teaching 4th and 5th grade, previously I worked for over 5 years as an art teacher for students on the autism spectrum and other special needs. Posts from August 2019 and earlier are from my previous job. Archives
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