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Auction - All School Art Project

We Heart Verdugo Woodlands

Almost the entire school participated in this collaborative project, which sold at the live Auction at 2015's Speakeasy Fundraiser. There were 690 hearts in all, representing 28 classes! The great thing about this idea is that it can be easily adapted to one class for an auction project. I was so impressed with the variety and detail of the heart drawings, and the final result was a very sweet tribute to the school.





SUPPLIES

  • White paper cut into 1000 1" inch squares (Art Closet). Kinko's cut the paper and charged about $10. If you did this for one class, you could probably cut the paper yourself to save money.
  • Frame (Michael's, $20)
  • The students used markers, crayons, and colored pencils from their own classroom supplies
  • Quarter-inch mat board cut to fit the frame (Swain's, $15)
  • Gluestick


This project was inspired by Elizabeth's Rosen's 100 Hearts. We sent this picture to all the teachers before starting the project so they would have a reference point.




The pieces of paper were divided and distributed to all the teachers at the school. We requested that the students use only marker, colored pencil, or crayons because paint and oil pastel would get too messy on such tiny pieces of paper. If you did this project for just one class, however, you could use much larger pieces of paper and not have any restrictions! Collage, mosaic, tempera paint would all be fun. As far as "artistic direction" went, we didn't really have any. We wanted the children to draw their hearts any way they wanted to. Each teacher dropped off envelopes with the finished hearts at the front desk.

The hearts were then (painstakingly) glued to the mat board in no particular order, other than classes were kept together. I tried to mix up the different grades so the more straightforward (younger) renderings were next to more detailed drawings (older grades).

You could expand this lesson if you want. Before you start, you could teach the kids to say "I Love You" in several different languages. For younger grades, you could read The Shape of My Heart. Older grades may appreciate the poetry exercises found in the K-8 guidebook Awakening the Heart. 

It was a cute project that sold for almost $1000! Here are some close-up shots:











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