Miss Murphy’s third grade class is ready to welcome Kevin McCloskey to MEC with their giant paper sculpture flamingos, inspired by Mrs. Fitz’s Flamingos! ⁦Muhlenberg SD⁩ #MECpride

Mrs. Ramirez’ third grade class is excited to have their paper bag owl puppets take flight for our upcoming Kevin McCloskey visit! ⁦Muhlenberg SD⁩ #MECpride

Miss Neiman’s second grade students created colorful stuffed cats, inspired by the art of ancient Egypt. Students emphasized repetition in each of their unique cats! ⁦Muhlenberg SD⁩ #MECpride

Miss Murphy’s third grade class successfully created an illusion of perspective in their Egyptian mummy tombs. Students learned how to draw using a vanishing point to make their realistic pictures! ⁦Muhlenberg SD⁩ #MECpride

Third graders from Mr. Conrad’s and Mrs. Ramirez’s classes compared and contrasted Medieval dragons in illuminated manuscript illustrations before creating three dimensional dragons of their own! Muhlenberg SD #MECpride

Mrs. Girard’s second grade students learned about Medieval cathedrals and gargoyles to design ceramic hanging gargoyles. Students practiced creating textures with clay slabs to build their works of art! ⁦Muhlenberg SD⁩ #MECpride

Mrs. Moser’s kindergarten students learned about Medieval art and jesters before creating playful jester puppets of their own! ⁦Muhlenberg SD⁩ #MECpride

Miss Murphy’s third grade students created designs for playing cards in a unit on Renaissance art! Students applied the idea of symmetrical balance in their colorful designs! ⁦Muhlenberg SD⁩ #MECpride

Mr. Conrad’s third grade class accomplished the idea of proportion in these works of art inspired by Galileo and the art of the Renaissance! ⁦Muhlenberg SD⁩ #MECpride

Ringing in the New Year in art with ceramic bells built by Miss Halteman’s third grade class! Students completed a unit on crafts by working with pinch pots to create their functional works of art ⁦Muhlenberg SD⁩

MEC kindergarten students are learning scissor skills and safety by creating colorful paper sculptures! Students are experimenting with paper while learning that mistakes in art can be fun! Muhlenberg SD

Third grade students in Miss Murphy’s class learned how to emboss tin to create symmetrical designs of the sun! Students learned the history of the sunstone with this project. Muhlenberg SD

Kindergarten students listened to Juana Martinez-Neal’s Alma and How She Got Her Name before sharing stories about their names. Afterwards, students practiced tracing their names. Next, they transformed their letters into thick shapes with pastels! Muhlenberg SD

First grade students started this year in art talking about the words culture and respect. Before learning about the art of different countries, students learned even though people can be different on the outside, we are all the same on the inside Muhlenberg SD

Third grade students learned why the sun was a symbol in Aztec, Incan, and Mayan art. They created scratch art papers with crayon and tempera paint to draw and scratch their own designs of the sun! Students created warm or cool color designs Muhlenberg SD

Third grade students from Mr. Sneeringer’s class are excited to welcome MEC’s upcoming visiting author, Annette Whipple! Students recycled magazines to create their paper collage owl costumes! ⁦Muhlenberg SD⁩

After learning about the culture and art of Native North Americans, second grade students had fun creating mini canoes using colored pencils, paper, and pipe cleaners. Forest animals paddle the canoes! ⁦Muhlenberg SD⁩

Miss Kopetsky’s and Mrs. Gunter’s first graders created paper gnomes in imaginary forests during a unit on European Folk art! ⁦Students worked with chalk, pastels, and crayon to fill their forests with color! ⁦Muhlenberg SD⁩

MEC artists have been busy reviewing how lines can communicate ideas in a picture. Students learned that even cave painters who lived thousands of years ago created art! ⁦Muhlenberg SD⁩

Inspired by the art of Keith Haring, third grade students worked cooperatively on Statue of Liberty murals! They learned about the history and symbolism of this national monument while discussing the significance of democracy! Muhlenberg SD #andi