Week 4: A student points out a pair of birds in the Birds of Paradise Quilt

Week 4: Deb talks about counting and symbolizing her family members, including her cats

Week 4: Deb shows a sample of her ironed-on applique

Week 4: Students sketch out a rough idea before they begin their collages

Week 4: A student uses socks to represent her family. How cute is that?!!

Week 4: This student’s love of the universe, uses the stars in the solar system to represent his family. Brilliant idea!

Week 4: A family of ducks in a row uses a color evoking sunset. Beautiful!

Hello Art In The House Friends,

In celebration of Valentine’s Day this upcoming week the students made Shrink Art tokens to give to both relatives and secret admirers! Inspired by Neil’s slide show of Valentines through the ages, many students chose to make funny pun Valentines, i.e: “Wooden Shoe like to Be My Valentine!”, “Hoo Loves You?”, and “Love You to Pizza!”. Others used words and symbols of love to make their Shrink Art. All loved watching them curl, flatten, and shrink in the toaster oven in minutes!

FIELD TRIP! Wednesday, February 22: As you probably know, there is NO SCHOOL Feb. 20-24 due to Winter Break. A few parents and students have expressed interest in another AITH field trip to Greenwich House Pottery and space is limited to 6. Please let me know if you’re interested or would like me to hold a space for your child. It’s a full day from 9AM to 5PM. The fee is $150.

Next Week: Students will create a fabric collage quilt square of their own design representing their families!

Note: Tuesday’s class will be painting their clay boxes when we break out the acrylics for another fun painting project.

Last Week’s Colonial Word of the Day: Murgeon

Contact: As always, you can reach us at: artinthehouse@gmail.com or on my cell phone: DEB: 347.200.6297.

Have a great weekend!

Debby, Neil, and Tim

Week 3: We handed out our AITH Student “ID” Cards!!!

Week 3: Our colonial Word of the Day