Help me give my students the full toolbox! The Sculpture Center needs a face-lift. Upcycling materials like corrugated cardboard requires the right tools for the job. Cutters like the ZipSnip and heavy-duty hole punchers will inspire the imagination.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Yurko's classroom raised $403
This project is fully funded
My Students
In the TAB (Teaching for Artistic Behaviors) studio students are regarded as artists and direct their own experience. They come up with their own art problems and solve them, consequently engaging more deeply with their learning. TAB focuses more on process over product. Students scaffold their own learning, sometimes going deeply into specific subjects or media; resulting in developmentally appropriate and differentiated projects. When everyone is working on different things, there is less of a tendency to compare oneself to others.
Students not only feel safe to find their own ways of expressing ideas and investigating art problems but also celebrate each other’s achievements.
We talk about how artists get ideas, where they get inspiration, and what "habits of mind" they develop. The artistic behaviors they practice are applicable and necessary well beyond the walls of the art room.
We are a Title I school and 70% of our students are from low-income families. We don't get the money for arts that other, wealthier schools enjoy. Fundraisers don't bring in much and parents cannot afford many of the "enrichment" experiences that all children deserve.
My Project
The most popular center of ALL TIME is now open: Sculpture! Surprisingly, most of our sculpture materials are scavenged from the trash bin and re-imagined as art or feats of engineering. Students use cardboard, paper-towel tubes, egg-cartons and tissue boxes to make everything---houses, pin-ball machines, fire trucks, piggy banks, instruments, and more. Here's the thing though--I want the students to do EVERY STEP. Certainly, I am a facilitator, overseer, and expert numero uno. But, in order for genuine learning to occur, I can't be stepping in all the time to cut the thick stuff that our lame scissors can't handle or punch holes when a simple paper punch is too weak.
We need REAL tools.
Cool ones, tough ones, but safe, too! Help inspire and enable my kiddos to cut, punch, and shape old trash into new beauty.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
WORX WX081L ZipSnip Cutting Tool
• Amazon Business
$32.67
3
$98.01
CANARY Cardboard Scissors, Blue (PS-6500H)
• Amazon Business
$17.68
3
$53.04
Heavy Duty 1/4 inch Standard Hole Punch – The Crop-A-Dile Power Punch with 2 inch Reach by We R Memory Keepers. Punch Through Paper, Chipboard, Thin Tin, Leather, Plastic, and Fabric
• Amazon Business
$13.90
3
$41.70
Chengu 6 Pieces Craft Holes Punch 1 Inch Paper Punchers Scrapbook Punches with 10 Pieces Craft Sticker Paper, Round, Star, Square, Heart, Flower, Wave Circle Shape
• Amazon Business
$27.59
1
$27.59
CADY Crafts Punch 3-Inch Paper Punches Craft Punches circle
• Amazon Business
$23.98
1
$23.98
Fiskars Thick Punch ThickPunch Circle 1.5"
• Amazon Business
$21.40
1
$21.40
AdTech 220-345-5 Hot Glue Sticks, 5 lb/4" Mini Size
• Amazon Business
$15.14
1
$15.14
Surebonder LT-160 Mini Low Temperature Glue Gun, 10-watt
• Amazon Business
$7.02
1
$7.02
Materials cost
$287.88
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$19.86
3rd party payment processing fee
$4.32
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$342.06
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$60.36
Total project goal
$402.42
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$402.42
5 Donors
-$402.42
Donations toward project cost
-$342.06
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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