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From Ocean Lab to Art Lab: A Bubble Painting Sea Jelly Investigation
From Ocean Lab to Art Lab: A Bubble Painting Sea Jelly Investigation Recently, I had the incredible opportunity to go behind the scenes at the Animal Spotlight: Sea Jellies programme at the Singapore Oceanarium. What made this visit so special wasn’t just seeing the sea jellies on display — it was learning how they are
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Divergent Thinking Art Lesson: Turning Paint Blobs Into Birds
Divergent Thinking Art Lesson: Turning Paint Blobs Into Birds Transforming ambiguity into possibility. This is a lesson and exercise for all ages – therapeutic for adults! This lesson builds creative thinking by strengthening students’ divergent thinking skills. Sometimes the best way to grow creativity is to start with a (controlled) mess. Students begin by doing
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Recycled Bottle Flower: Turning Trash into Bold Sculptural Blooms
Recycled Bottle Flower: Turning Trash into Bold Sculptural Blooms If you’re looking for a project that blends sustainability, sculpture, and design thinking — this recycled bottle flower is a classroom favorite. It’s bold.It’s textural.It transforms something ordinary into something surprisingly beautiful. And students LOVE using materials that would normally go straight into the recycling bin.
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Sew Sushi So Cute!
Sew Sushi So Cute! 🍣 A Felt Food Sculpture Project for the Art Room If you’re looking for a soft sculpture project that combines sewing skills, design thinking, and pure joy — felt sushi is it. This project is always a hit. Students love the recognizable forms, the bright colors, and the fact that they
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Drawing in the Air: A String Sculpture Inspired by Ruth Asawa
Drawing in the Air: A String Sculpture Inspired by Ruth Asawa Before we wrap a single string around a balloon, let’s talk about the incredible artist behind our inspiration: Ruth Asawa. Ruth Asawa was a groundbreaking American sculptor known for her intricate, looping wire forms that seem to float in space. Her sculptures look like
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Designing a Robot Chicken: Where Art Meets STEAM
Designing a Robot Chicken: Where Art Meets STEAM This week in the art room, we engineered a chicken. Not a fluffy farm chicken. A blocky. Structural. Possibly-ready-for-liftoff robot chicken. And yes — it was one of the best STEAM lessons we’ve done all year. Step One: Think Like an Engineer Before we ever talked about
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Coffee Filter Flower: Capillary Action
Coffee Filter Flowers & Capillary Action A hands-on lesson in how plants drink There’s something magical about watching color travel. In this lesson, students create vibrant coffee filter flowers while exploring one of the most important processes in plant biology: capillary action — the way water moves through tiny spaces without needing gravity to pull
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The “Chatterbox” Comeback: A Classic Paper Toy with Big Creative Power
The “Chatterbox” Comeback: A Classic Paper Toy with Big Creative Power Remember the paper fortune tellers from childhood? The ones folded from a single square of paper—opened and closed with fingers while someone picked a color and a number? In my classroom, I’ve brought it back as the “Chatterbox”—and it’s become one of the most
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Slit & Shape Slotted Sculptures: From 2D to 3D With Cardboard
Cardboard Sculpture Project: Building a 5-Piece Slot Horse 🐴 One more horse themed project to usher in the Lunar New Year of the horse! Sometimes the simplest construction methods create the strongest results! This cardboard horse sculpture uses basic slit-and-slot construction — no fancy tongue-and-groove joints required. Just carefully measured slits that slide together to
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The Horse [马]: Meaning And Symbolism Found In Chinese Art
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The Horse [马] in Chinese Art: Power, Speed, and a Whole Lot of Energy 🐎🧧 Welcome the Lunar New Year! Every year in the Chinese calendar is connected to one of 12 animal signs — this is called the Chinese zodiac. The Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, marks the start of
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Growing creative, confident global thinkers through art and design.
Recent Posts
- From Ocean Lab to Art Lab: A Bubble Painting Sea Jelly Investigation
- Divergent Thinking Art Lesson: Turning Paint Blobs Into Birds
- Recycled Bottle Flower: Turning Trash into Bold Sculptural Blooms
- Sew Sushi So Cute!
- Drawing in the Air: A String Sculpture Inspired by Ruth Asawa
- Designing a Robot Chicken: Where Art Meets STEAM
- Coffee Filter Flower: Capillary Action
- The “Chatterbox” Comeback: A Classic Paper Toy with Big Creative Power
- Slit & Shape Slotted Sculptures: From 2D to 3D With Cardboard
- The Horse [马]: Meaning And Symbolism Found In Chinese Art
- Setsubun [節分] Seasonal Japanese Tradition Mask-Making & Coloring
- Pop, Pour, Print! Soda-Pop Powered Lithographic Art
- Seeing Like an Impressionist: Crayon Sketchbook Studies
- Impressionism In Real Life At the National Gallery Singapore
- East Meets Gold: Collaging Cultural Influence in the Style of Gustav Klimt
