To begin I wanted to share one of my pet peeves. I absolutely hate when I get back to my car after shopping and there is some sort of flyer (trying to sell me something I do not need) tucked under my wind shield wiper. At least leave me a cool gift or a funny joke, I would appreciate that much more. So, I thought for my guerilla art I would leave short notes on people's wind shields. I only used about 4 different quotes that would hopefully put a smile on a random stranger's face. Each card also has spread the love written at the bottom. Who knows, maybe my act of niceness will inspire other to pass on the happiness. I have found that kindness is contagious. When I'm walking in the morning and someone says good morning, I am more likely to greet the next person I see with a smile and a good morning, it's a chain reaction!
Here are someone photos of the cards I did. I tried to string it into a video. I didn't take pictures of the cars because of license plates and privacy and all that. I put it on about 5 cars in a parking lot of a plaza by my house. I saw one person go up to their car, look and it, and crumple it. Hurt my feelings, but that's okay. Maybe they did not like stuff on their wind shield.
The song I used is by Thrice and it's called Music Box. The video says it's over 9 minutes long but it's really only 30 seconds (I just didn't know how to cut the song :) ).
Okay so you may not want to take your classroom out to spray paint some buildings or leave notes on people's cars, but how about just being spontaneous. Children are spontaneous when it comes to some of their activities, go with it.
The art word of the week is space. To me, space is everything that has to do with a piece of art or a room being decorated. As Schirrmacher and Fox (2009) describe, the amount of space that an artist has all depends on the size of their canvas. For my cards the space was the size of the card. I also had to be smart about the space being used. If I wrote tiny and filled up the entire card with writing, no one would take the time to read it because it would look crazy. I made is just about 1/4 the size of a letter size paper and wrote pretty large on it.
Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J.E. (2009). Art and creative development for young children (6th Ed.). Belmont,CA: Delmar.
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