Kluender Maker Space Workshop

We had such a great turnout in the library today for our first Maker Space Craft Workshop! We had around 40-45 students creating stuffed sugar skulls! Thank you so much for coming and creating with me :)

An example of the finished product^

Kluender/ Didlake Art 78

Students have been adding more elements to embellish their skulls with Mrs. Didlake. They have been encouraged to use symbolic pieces to honor someone specific.

Kluender/ Didlake Art 78

Students are enjoying their first lesson with Mrs. Didlake! They have been creating skull masks in celebration of Dia De Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.

Students have learned a lot about this Mexican tradition.

They have created skull masks using cardboard and oil pastels and will soon add more symbolic pieces.

Kluender/ Didlake Art 78

Art 78 students began building their relief skulls out of cardboard today. 

They were encouraged to use their sketches as inspiration, but given permission to change as needed.

Kluender and Didlake

Please help us welcome our student teacher visiting from VCU, Mrs. Didlake! She has begun to take over the ARt 78 classes with a Dia De Los Muertos lesson. Today, students were introduced to this holiday and drew skulls in class.

Kluender: Dia De Los Muertos!

Happy Dia De Los Muertos!!!! Check out our display of our colorful sugar skulls! Our Art students loved this brief introduction to printing! Art 8 will begin a reduction linoleum block printing lesson next!

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Sugar Skull Printing

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Step 2: Printing our plates with white ink....
Once dry, we will add color with colored pencils :)

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Here are some completed styrofoam printing plates for our Dia De Los Muertos sugar skulls! Can't wait to print them!!!