Smart Fav Exploration

Smart Fab Explorations

Grades 2 & Up,

Time : 1 45-minute art periods

This project can be done in a million ways. you can have students use it as a collage material much like tissue paper, or have them use markers, paint, stamping or craypas on it.

Aims:
To explore the possibilities of Smart Fab (available at Nasco Art)

(Optional) To integrate art with an academic subject

Materials and Tools:
Smart Fab in various colors
Scissors
Glue or Medium
Various art materials
Optional: Backing paper, Forms to cover, etc.

Vocabulary:
Creativity, exploration, layering, etc.

Procedure:
This fabric can be used in so many ways. You can collage it, braid it, weave it, cut it, draw on it. cover other things with it, etc. Create your own way of working with it and develop your own procedure

Reflection:
Make sure you share and display the work, as always.

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This will be a blog for educators and art educators who are looking for creative solutions to the needs of K-12 students. We will write about ways to engage learners and grab their attention. Our philosophy is that "information is not education" and that true learning can only take place if students "have made meaning." Our focus will be how to use art to this end, but we will go beyond the realm of art from time to time, sharing strategies that can work in many disciplines. We believe in an ordered and structured classroom that will allow much freedom for our students once established.


About Me:
Julia Healy has presented workshops, professional development sessions and courses on creativity, art methods and educational topics at national and state associations, as well as at museums and school districts. She currently teaches art and art education subjects at CUNY/QCC and Hofstra University.

She holds a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has taughtart, K-12 over the past twenty years. She lives and works in New York.