Remington and Jackson had a visual arts group studio this morning. We started with the marbling technique. We did a step-by-step procedure for marbling paper pumpkins, mummies, and Day of the Dead sugar skulls. Our steps were as follows: 1) Each student sprayed shaving cream in the aluminum pan, 2) he added drops of liquid paint to the shaving cream, 3) he used a wooden tool to swirl or marble the paint in the shaving cream, 4) he placed the paper face down in the shaving cream, and 5) after he pulled the paper off the foam, we used a squeegee to scrape the shaving cream off to reveal our marbled print. We were left with beautiful, marbled pumpkins, sugar skulls for Day of the Dead, and mummies. The artists want to hang these artworks in the lunchroom for our school Halloween party.

Then we went to our STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) station and created Halloween figures out of toilet paper rolls. Each artist made a vampire with bat wings. It was a productive studio!