As an elementary education major, I had a lot of opportunities to use my creativity in the lessons that I had to plan for my classes during practicum and student teaching. One project I'm particularly proud of is my stick puppet set for The Shark Who Was Afraid of Everything. The assignment was to create a shared reading lesson, and as I was reading through some books I thought that this was one that I could maybe replicate in pictures so that the kids would have something to use to retell the story (which, by the way, is a very important part of literacy development of young readers!). Ultimately, I think the lesson is a bit too complicated (too many props) for kindergarten, but I was able to make it work, and they loved it! And this blog is about sharing my art, not my lesson ideas haha. So, I bought acrylic paints and paintbrushes and got to work. When everything was complete, I had them all laminated and then I attached them to dowels. Each picture was made within a 12x12 inch sheet of paper, so they're pretty good size. I'm especially proud of this one because I had never really gotten into using paints before, and I was able to get pretty good results with very cheap materials :)
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