Steps of the Mosaic

Making a mosaic has many many steps. If you look at my previous post, you will see that we worked with clay to make mosaic fish and sea creatures, but that is only the beginning. To make the mosaic, first the 3rd and 4th graders glued down their ceramic piece. Then the other grades helped by placing down tiles around the fish. We put brown and black tiles on the ocean floor and blue and green tiles in the sea.
None of the tiles in the picture below are glued down yet. We were still moving things around to decide how we wanted it.
Now we started gluing! Wear gloves while working with liquid nails. I had liquid nails stuck on my hands for a few days.
Kiara was smart and wore gloves.
After everything was glued (which took A LONG time) we put grout in between all the tiles. The mosaic is FOUR PANELS large!! I hope it will be installed this summer.
Ms. Elleby painted the fish on the panel you see below.
I painted the two fish on the second panel.

Shape Quake

6th and 7th graders were given a piece of black paper, scissors, and glue. They were asked to cut any shapes out of the paper and shift them around, but use all scraps. Most people followed directions but I did find a few scrap pieces of black paper after they left! Here is artwork from students who used the whole paper:
Artwork by Kiara W
Artwork by Michael
Artwork by Cornelius
Artwork by Denadrian

Artwork by Kenya
Artwork by Candice
Artwork by Robert
Artwork by Darneisha
Artwork by April
Artwork by Alanchae