How to create a simple yet impressive class art project for sale at the school's fund raising auction?
As I mentioned last week, it's school auction time again, and I'm forced privileged to be involved, thanks to my roommotherhood. One of our jobs as room parents is to orchestrate a group project to be offered for sale by the third grade to unsuspecting enthusiastic parents. Our main criteria are as follows:
- Item must be easy to produce
- Item must have the potential for bringing in lots of money
- Item ideally (in my opinion) should originate at FeeFiFoto, my personalized gift web site, because hey -- let's spread some of that wealth around, shall we?
Whatever item we choose, it has to be carry the personal imprint of 48 third graders. Hand prints? Nah -- by now, thanks to the interminable defilement of shiny surfaces like windows and refrigerators, parents no longer appreciate the charm in their kids' hand prints. Footprints? See above. Photos of the kids? A possibility, but see above, number 1; producing acceptable photos of 48 kids isn't so easy. A collage of artwork by the students? Hmm. Still time consuming to produce, considering someone has to oversee the activities of 48 uncontrollable enthusiastic artists. But -- what if we used artwork the kids had already created? Let the art teacher do the hard work; we can make it into a photo collage and take all the credit.
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What's this, you ask?
This is a ceramic mask made by Robespierre three years ago when he was in third grade. If you can ignore the busy mosaic wallpaper in the background, you can see that the mask portrays a chinless monster. All the third graders make ceramic masks, which hang in the school library until the end of the year. This year Cleo's third grade class made their own series of masks, including pigs, people, dogs, cats, cows, elephants, unicorns and bears. Cleo's mask depicted Miss Puppy, complete with pink tongue and floppy black ears.
And because I'm lazy avaricious smart and creative, I figured we could take a portrait of each mask and incorporate all the photos into a colorful and engaging photo collage.
Now. On what sort of item do we display this exceptional collage? Check back later and find out.
