Owls 2012-2013: Beginning To Board

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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Beginning To Board

Welcome back into the swing of things, friends!

The Owls hope everyone enjoyed the break. Now that we've returned, we have wasted no time in revisiting our board game study. Today, small groups worked on making rough drafts for their own board games! Friends got to design their own art for the boards using pencils, sharpies, then watercolors. They also got to design the rules for their games, with some instructions being "solve a math problem when you land here" and "use the tornado to jump over the ogre".

We introduced a new art medium today: Do-A-Dot markers. The markers make (roughly) half-inch dots when placed on paper, and friends experimented with creating different designs and using the dots to try out more color mixing.