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’SHROOMS WITH A VIEW

September is National Mushroom Month! To celebrate, make these fanciful caps you can plant in a garden, fl owerpot, or even your lawn. To make one, place a plastic Easter egg half, curved side down, in the center of a large piece of aluminum foil (ours was 10 by 12 inches). While holding the end of a bamboo skewer in the center, scrunch the foil around the egg half, then crumple the rest of the foil around the skewer to form a thick stem. Leave several inches of the skewer sticking out from the bottom of the stem to insert in the ground. Paint the cap with acrylic paint and let it dry before planting. Dot your lawn with foil mushrooms for magical backyard party decor.

EASY PEASY

MAKE AN ERASELET Those groovy round beads in the bracelet above are actually erasers! To make them, press together various colored bits of Sculpey eraser clay, then roll the mixture into balls. Poke a hole through each with a toothpick. Bake them as the package directs. String them onto elastic cord along with additional beads and tie the cord ends together.

crafter’s tip

which glue’s for you?

Though they look similar, white glue and tacky glue differ in a few important ways. White glue is thinner, so it’s easier to mix with paint or thin with water. It often makes paper buckle when drying. Tacky glue is thicker, so it tends to dry faster, and it causes less buckling. It’s great for joining 3-D pieces together. (When adhering paper to paper, though, a glue stick is your best choice.)

featured artist

HOPE KNIGHT

Art teacher Hope Knight believes that her students’ creativity is boundless and they have the potential to express themselves powerfully through art. She should know; Mrs. Knight, as her students call her, has been teaching art at Dolvin Elementary in Johns Creek, Georgia, for 20 years. She also shares her ideas online at dolvinartknight.blogspot.com.

HER FAVORITE ART METHOD

“Printmaking can be messy, but I love the excitement when the kids pull up their printing plate— anything from a cut sponge to a carved styrofoam sheet—to see what they’ve created.”

PROMPTING IDEAS

“Let’s say you just took a vacation. Ask your child, ‘What’s one thing from the trip that pops into your mind when you close your eyes? How can you represent that in your art?’”

ON MAKING CONNECTIONS

“In class, we do a lot of sharing and reflection. We try to figure out how to use art to express feelings—your voice—visually. For example, the kids will try to choose a color scheme to reflect the mood they’re going for.”

SEEING WHAT’S THERE

“I have the kids do observation exercises, quick sketches of other kids, say, or little still lifes, to get them in the mind-set of drawing what they actually see and not what they think they know.”

project she loves artistic insects

Hope’s students use their powers of observation to re-create scientific illustrations with unexpected collage materials. 1 | Online (using a Google image search) or in a reference book, find a scientific illustration of an insect your child likes. 2 | Select two complementary colors of paper. 3 | For a symmetrical insect, fold one sheet of paper in half and draw half of the bug’s outline on the fold. Cut out the shape, unfold it, and glue it to the other sheet. 4 | Using the illustration as a guide, glue on shapes and lines made of yarn, fabric, feathers, shiny paper, and craft foam.

Our artist based her collage on a luna moth.

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