As a first grade teacher, I feel it is my DUTY to carry on the holiday hand-decoration tradition. I'm even considering making a hand-decoration for every month of the school year, I'm THAT dedicated to the cause. Last month we made bats. This month.....
we made turkeys:
Aren't they just too cute? I pretty much just let my kids go with their own creative imaginations when it comes to doing art projects. I do give directions and I walk around and give help and ideas, but when I see a child doing something that isn't perfect I don't step in and change it for them. I think the way a child does artwork shows a lot about who they are and where they are in that stage of life. With these turkeys I did try and make sure they glued the hands (aka. feathers) on correctly. When we were all finished and the glue was dry, I realized I didn't quite get to all of them which is why a few turkeys looked like this:
Personally, I think this one is aaaaawesome.
This little guys is apparently using his feathers as some sort of hide-out.
And then there's always that one. I think I'll call this one "The Ghost of Thanksgiving Present".
6 comments:
Those make me smile, especially the ones where the kids decided to "draw outside the lines."
Hip hip hooray! A post from Carrie! Okay, I'm totally relating to the cause here. My personal favorite is the turkey with the freak out fro hair. I think that is because I look like that in the morning! And the last one, he may just be the next Picaso. Save that one, someday it just might be something priceless. However, I do find that construction paper and glue don't hold up to the ages.
I have seen these pictures probably 6 or 7 times. I've even shown them to guys at work. Now I'm reading about them and seeing them in a blog. Yet not once...not a SINGLE time am I able to keep from laughing so hard when I see that last picture that I can hardly breathe. My favorite part? That it is by one of the two top readers in her class.
I am with Zac, I started laughing so HARD I was crying. Not because of the picture, but because of my trying to picture the "free spirit" who made it...and his/her parents. Thumbs up for breaking away from the crowd!
Those are priceless! What I love the most is that the one who appears to be hiding behind his feathers looks like the kid who did it spent a long time carefully gluing the feathers in place just like that. So much effort, so little attention to one minor little detail. :)
Yep, my favorite is the one where he's using the feathers as some sort of hideout.
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