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Hey guys! Check out the below link for a YouTube tutorial on how to make your own SQUASH BOOK. Some of you started this with me in class last week, but you can ALL – 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade students alike – make one at home with some simple materials. Let me know if you have questions! And post a picture of your finished book in the comments below for us all to see! I’ll take a few of your shared works and post them on my Instagram too!

Greetings from Mrs. Kruger! I’m sure everyone has a lot of questions and it’s hard to wait for answers. I will be using the blog to share any information I have with you as soon as I have it.

With the closing of school, I also wanted to put out some resources for you to keep creative at home during the next few weeks. Keep checking back here over the next few weeks for drawing projects and resources. You can COMMENT on the blog posts if you have questions or you can EMAIL me at krugerl@dearbornschools.org. I will be checking the blog and my email regularly.

If you don’t have access to internet at home, use this link to apply for possible free internet at home during this time: https://www.internetessentials.com/covid19

Until I see you all again – please keep safe and keep healthy. Take care of yourselves. Take care of your families.

Mrs. Kruger

Complete a drawing based on the word show for each day, and turn them in for extra credit points!

新年快樂! Happy Chinese New Year, or, Lunar New Year! Today in Middle School art we talked about what Chinese/Lunar New Year is, how it’s celebrated, and how red is a lucky color in Chinese culture. Then we celebrated by making some patterned Chinese lanterns. Here are a few student examples from our work:

Here is the January Extra Credit sketchbook list – complete a drawing using each word as your inspiration and turn them in by the end of the month! If you don’t know what a word means – look it up or ask Mrs. Kruger!

It’s here! Winter Break! And here are a few super beautiful winter landscape paintings from Middle School artists to see you off into your vacation. Aren’t they LOVELY! I’m so proud of their work.

I hope you enjoy your time off school. I hope you get to visit with family and friends. I hope you get to rest. I hope you have some fun. Stay safe and warm!

Mrs. Kruger

7th Grade 3-D students have been working hard on Pop Art inspired food sculptures made from paper mache. Here are a few pics of students working on their projects and then the completed sculptures! They all turned out SO great.

Does your grade need a little boost? Did you get so busy chatting that you missed some points on your last few Warm-Up assignments? Have you lost some participation points for coming in tardy? Make some ART! Get out your sketchbook and get to sketching. Bring in your 31 finished drawings on 12/31 or 01/01 and Mrs. Kruger will give you points! This is the only Extra Credit offered. Happy art-making!

Halloween is definitely over but I still wanted to share some of the SUPER awesome student artwork we made during that week.

These were silhouette sharpie drawings on coffee filters that we painted with watercolor. I LOVE the finished results.

And as an added bonus – me dressed as a crayon!