I don't know about you, but at our school we are working under a very tight budget. Like always, we are doing fund raisers just to have supplies to teach our classes. I know that we are all feeling the same pinch. Art teachers tend to be very resourceful and will substitute things that are not typically used as art supplies and make them work for projects.
What are you doing to stretch your supplies at your school?
Beth,
ReplyDeleteThis year I haven't had to stretch that much because I moved to a new school and the school had supplies left from the previous art teacher. In Previous years I have used everything from watercolors made from natural ground pigments to egg crates as painting canvas. I believe your right about art teachers being resourcefull but a lot of the resources that we dont use are in the people we work for, our students and their families. I find that if you speak with our kids they will come with great solution to solve our supply problems. As teachers we often shoulder the problem for the community, but if we can share our struggle. I beleive people wil rise to help us and the children we serve.