"We All Grow Together"

Over the past month or so, I have been helping Sam's class create an art project for their school fundraiser. This is an auctioned event, and each class is supposed to submit a work of art that parents or members of the community can purchase. The project ended up taking more time than I thought - another mother named Maria and I repeatedly had to visit the classroom to have the students work on decorating their hand prints and foot prints.

Last Saturday evening, Maria and I made a collage with the hand prints and foot prints to form a tree. We glued the pieces onto a canvas from IKEA which was spray painted black. Maria titled the piece "We All Grow Together," which I think is appropriate. I was glad to work with her and I appreciated her input on what the children should create and how the final product should look.

I won't be attending the auction itself, so I was happy that I could help with the fundraiser in another way. I am glad to have this image, though, so I can remember what Sam did. His foot print is the solid purple one at the bottom of the canvas. One of his hand prints is in the center of the canvas. There is a white smiley face in the center of his palm; he insisted that he didn't want to color that part of his hand. The other hand print is on the right edge of the tree (a little ways up from his other hand print); it is decorated green and orange with some bluish dots and stripes.

I'm pleased with how everything turned out, and I'm also glad that this project is over! I'm looking forward to spending some time catching up on some other projects.