I found these amazing Nursery Rhymes Cupcakes through Boing Boing on this Flickr account
On the same day Reddit published the link to these mind blowing Bento Boxes (japanese lunch boxes). These links were a perfect fit for another Reddit link about lunchbag art: a dad draws his kids everyday a new lunchbag. Don't you think these 3 people should get together and start a lunch service? Meanwhile I look at the lunches I pack my daughter and wonder, if I should try a little harder...
I had the good fortune to teach some art lessons in my daughter's 6th grade class. I started off the series of lessons with a talk entitled "Warning! You may have art in your home that you are not aware of". I tried to communicate that art and design are all around us and that we often don't realize how much of our world is art and design - from the chair we sit on to the clothes we wear and the magazines we read. Middle school kids often connect with the term art only the "boring" paintings in museums or consider making art a "childish" past time that they did when they were little. To get them interested again in making art I brought in different "art" objects: a photograph, an iPod, a skate board with graffiti, a tie-dye rock t-shirt and more. we talked about how all these objects have a deliberate visual language applied to them. in the following two lessons we practiced drawing perspective. The last lesson we made our own key ring charms by drawing on Shrinky Dinks plasic material which shrinks when baked. Here are some samples that my daughter and I had prepared for the lesson.
