More building settings for stories...

A starry night in the city...

 A starry night overlooking the the water...

The students enjoyed creating their own setting for their stories and movies.  Art making stimulates and develops imagination and critical thinking in our students.


This fall, my art class was focused on supporting our science curriculum.  Most grade levels had a common thread ...night elements.


This was an exciting way to take their everyday and night experiences and make science meaningful to them.


Ah-Ha! Nocturnal Animals! What creatures come out at night?

Give the students a blue or violet piece of construction paper and tell them place a moon into the scene.  You immediately have a connection to their real life experiences.  Floods of experiences, stories, wonderings, and imagination spark for science!

"We all have to eat sometime!" growled the coyote.

Art making motivates and engages children in learning.

Building Settings for Stories

One starry night....where?  One starry night in the desert....Yes indeed! Inspired by the infamous painter VanGogh, we were able to create night time story settings.  Now all we have to add are the characters/actors to the set.