– Art Projects –
2007-2008
Woven figures: "floppy friends"
Just before the winter holiday, Carlson fourth- and fifth-graders completed a weaving project, with every student creating an individually designed puppet-like figure that the students called their "floppy friends."
Fifth-graders in the art studio embellish their weavings to create their individually designed "floppy friends."
Chase applied the weaving techniques she learned to create this woven belt.
Angela's ballerina
Cowboy "friend" is ready for the rodeo!
Julieann turned her weaving into a reindeer just in time for the holidays.
Partnership with Sid Richardson Museum
In the fall, Carlson third-grade students went on a series of field trips to the museum and other locations in our city to study the concept of community. Through connections with Western art, which often documents the development, life, and disappearance of various communities or cultures, students learned to recognize important aspects of communities.
Investigating communities within trees on the boardwalk at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden
The 150 Years Museum, one of our stops tells about the history and development of Fort Worth.
Reading the tree, students discover the age and health record or a large specimen.
After playing "Bears and Berries," a survival game that illustrates natural selection, Chloe emerged as the bear most likely to survive a cold winter!
Sculpting characters from paintings, Gabbye shows off her version of Fredrick Remington.
Caleb sculpts a horse.
Early Texas settlers used natural resources to survive. Our guide demonstrates how to use the antler rake!
These are not the usual residents of a fallen log!
"Imagine No Violence" Art Show
Carlson participates in the Safe City Commission's annual Imagine No Violence art contest. Pictured below are this year's winning entries from Noah, Jean, and Dimitri.
Second-grader Noah S. created the first-place entry in the Carlson Safe Cities Art Show with his picture entitled "Playing Without Any Concern." Noah will represent Carlson in the district-level Safe Cities Art Show.
Kindergartner Jean S. won second place in the Carlson Safe Cities Art Show with her picture entitled "Under the Sharing Umbrella."
Fourth-grader Dimitri won third place in the Carlson Safe Cities Art Show with his picture entitled "Safe World of Lights."