- Edible Art- basically exactly what you'd think. It would be more of a community thing where kids from schools around the area could come and participate and create art with food. And then of course eat it too. They had marzipan that they used like clay to sculpt, people made cakes and let kids decorate them, others used frosting to glue M&Ms down to wax paper, etc. We can get more creative with it, so far it's just an idea.
- Sidewalk chalk contest- Something that Liz had mentioned before. It's a neat idea that everyone could participate in and we can give out prizes and whatnot.
- Paper crafts- Origami, Paper pinwheels, boats, etc. They can be decorated by us, or by other people, and sell them or something.
- Costume contest!- Pretty self-explanatory I think. Stipulation being people would have to make their own costumes, not buy them. It would be good for most holidays or as a separate event.
- Learn how to knit?- Perhaps do something at a nursing home, knitting a blanket, or helping with a Quilt. This could also be something we do closer to the holidays. Maybe make mittens or scarves or slippers and donate them to charity.
- Valentines- Obviously, around valentine's day, we make a bunch of cards and sell them at lunch or give them to old people at a nursing home. We can also do this with Christmas cards of course.
- Pictures- We recreate famous paintings with people or animals and cut out the faces for photos. We of course would be the ones taking the photos.
- Pancake breakfast- Cook really big pancakes and decorate them. Not sure who for or where or when, but again, these are just ideas.
- Field trips- Of any kind for us. Preferably with something that's kind of out of the ordinary if possible. Maybe a trip to the DIA that's not only an hour long?
- A collective painting- Either each member has their own little section or we all just add to it at random, but make a bunch of them throughout the year and have a gallery show at the end.
- Pumpkin carving contest- Again, pretty self explanatory.
- Tie-dying t-shirts- It's easy, honest. All we need is a bunch of white t-shirts, some rubber bands and food coloring or fabric dye, whichever we can most afford. Possibly sell them at school? We could correlate it with a spirit week after lobbying with STUCO to get a tie dye day.
We also need to think about things to do this summer. I know Dimmer had wanted us to visit galleries and art festivals. We can always keep track of that as it comes up. I was thinking it might be a good idea to organize a trip to the DIA for a day. There doesn't have to be a real purpose behind it, but it might be nice to go and have fun together and not be so serious all the time.
Commenting would probably be best if anyone can think of anything else that would be really good to try next year, or after school lets out.
So please, let me know what you think and be excruciatingly honest. We won't get anywhere this year either if our ideas are failures from the start.
~Andrea
