Waddell Elementary School Art, Introduction, Manchester CT USA

Waddell Elementary School

163 Broad St., Manchester, Connecticut 06040 USA

1-860-647-3392

Visit our school home page!

Art teachers: Emma Craib and Joseph Vernalli

I have made this art web site for you to explore. Enjoy!

Mrs. Craib

To see more, click on the beetle

This is one of the insect origami developed by master folder Robert Lang.
One of Waddell's graduates who is now in secondary school folded this example! Trust me, it is VERY hard to do!!!!

Learn to fold this little lucky bat
(and learn why he is called lucky) on a how-to page!

I used many photos and QuickTime movies to show you how. It was made for people who know nothing about origami. My students will find it even easier as they recognize some of the triicks they have already learned.

Explore bats in art from around the world and the bats of Connecticut in a few more pages that go along with the origami.

If you like origami, be sure to check out the How To Index for more.

Another new how-to is a Flash movie I made showing how to make the samurai helmet, a fish and a turtle.

Then there is a new page contributed by a person from Israel who saw our site on the web...a shirt with attached pants...diagramed by Nadav Vaks

Play...I am making jigsaw puzzles. Go to the Jigsaw Puzzle Index page and try one. They take a moment to load so don't give up if nothing seems to be on the page for a minute!

Take a look: Artists hand paint envelopes to go with certain stamps, creating special collectors items.

Meet me, Emma Craib, (the art teacher)
What I Did On My Vacation - A Trip to MASS MoCA
This is a photo documentary of a car trip to an art museum in western Massachusetts.
Visit my Madagascan Hissing Roach Page (over 38,000 times people have checked out the page!)
Visit my Origami Pages (started with the essay Why Origami Is So Good for You! Over 68,000 visits have been made to that page! Instructions for Swan now there, too.

Essays I've written for handouts or hall displays:

Paper Engineering, or Why Your Zebra Fell on Its Face
What is School Art All About Anyway?..

Blast from the Past links :-)

a page of ancient links where you might find something you remember doing in art class years ago.

Chicken Week 2002: Again my neighbors the Weimanns loaned the school their hen Millie and her newest brood of chicks! Children practiced their observation skills and used Millie as a model. It was interesting to notice things about the chickens that we had not known before. Did you know Millie blinks from the bottom up!!!!!Her bottom eye lid comes up, not her top down like us. And the color and pattern of chicken eyes are nifty.
To see pictures a 2nd grade did, click here.

To see very short movies (.mpegs) of Millie herself and the chicks use THIS LINK.

Want to know what your art teacher does on some of those Staff Development days?
GO HERE!

This page designed and maintained by Emma Craib:
suggestions and comments
welcome.