Middle school students were introduced to the 8 Studio Habits with short little mini projects that focused on each concept. Think of these as warm ups, or sketches. Each student had 8-10 minutes to complete the activity for each Studio Habit, then we rotated the materials around the room so each student completed 4 challenges/ sketches total. We began with just 4 of the Studio Habits, envision, stretch and explore, observe, and develop craft. Later in the year we will try challenges related to the rest of the studio habits. This was a fun way to get our brains warmed up for art, and also a really tangible way to practice using some of the 8 Studio Habits. Most of the sketches were quite funny and had many tables laughing at their creations. For the 'stretch and explore' challenge students had to select a word or phrase from a bucket and then make it with only the (strange) items in their table bin. I was really impressed with how all the creative ways students used the materials- The first and second photograph are pieces from this challenge, one is a candy corn and the other is a shish kabob. For the 'envision' challenge students had to select a verb and a noun from the bucket then turn it into a sketch. This challenge resulted in some hilarious sketches- in the image above the student selected jump and IHop and the result was an IHop jumping rope.
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