training all k-5 art teachers

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Amy

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With school starting and all these teachers coming in for mat scrap hand outs etc. I am on a mission to train them to STOP FOLDING THEIR STUDENTS WORKS OF ART and stuffing them into their backpacks. You'd think with all the paper toweling tubes they solicit they could roll them up and slip them into one of those for (somewhat) safe keeping! Please join me in this mission to preserve and protect these works by future Picasso's!
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Amy, CPF
CBF Portland,Maine
right on the Bay
 
Good plan. I'd also vote for banning the use of industrial-type staplers to attach them to construction paper. They look a lot nicer on the fridge without the big holes.
 
Oh, this is bad. I just posted under Diva's name by mistake. She must have been the last user on this computer. You probably wondered why there weren't any typos (at least that I've noticed.)

If you're not a regular visitor to Warped, never mind.

Ron
 
How about not leaving them in the back of the car with the artist and all his/her siblings to sit/spill/trample on until you make it to the frame shop?

I've had so many mothers come in with artwork by their children that's so wrinkled and damaged it might as well be scrap paper....and then they expect me to drymount it and solve all the problems. *sigh* And I don't know about you, but I just don't feel comfortable drymounting crayons, markers, and Elmer's glue.
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And what's with all the pastels recently? Where were all these cool mediums when I was going to school? I was lucky if I could find a whole Crayon, much less PASTELS.....geez.

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I don't care what color your sofa is.
 
Just had two pieces of children's artwork brought in today and both of them had a glued sticker on the back of them. Couldn't be removed as it would remove a layer of the paper. Couldn't use a chemical remover as they were watercolors.
 
My sister teaches in a pre-school. Recently she needed to do an art project with her kids to be used as decorations in her room for visiting parents to see. Since her "charges" are toddlers, she decided to have them make "pictures" with hand and foot prints of acrylic paint on watercolor paper. Her teaching partner taped the pictures to (ugh) red construction paper; then realized they looked pretty bad. So my sister brought them to our shop for help. We removed the tape and construction paper. We mounted the pictures on Artcare mounting boards and gave them borders with harmonizing acid free mats. We made sure the outside dimensions would fit a standard frame. We put our label on the back and included a brochure from our frame shop. The parents were thrilled, and my sister earned the respect of her employers for upgrading the expectations of the school. Just think how those toddlers felt about the worth of their art!!!!

Linda
 
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