Patty, I have to admit, I'm pretty bored with those animals. I do like
art cars, though. At least they are more creative with shape and
materials used. I'm tired of the fiberglass approach with the
animals...you have your basic standing up animal and your basic lying
down animal to choose from. I agree with you...I wish they would just
give materials to the artists and let them make art with them, and they
ARE exhorbitantly expensive. I wonder what it will take to get people
to finally move on from this trend or fad, if you will. You raise a lot
of excellent questions for us to grapple with. It's an uphill fight
sometimes to get kids to want to think about such philosophical issues,
but we MUST do so. And Marvin, you are right about learning lessons
from ruined things. I am absolutely flabbergasted sometimes by my
kids...so many of them just take it for granted that there will always
be more of anything they need. I see blatant disregard for the property
of others at times. I am shocked by the way some of my students handle
MY stuff!!!
They way young kids grab books from each other's hands when they want to
see something cool...forget about the pages that get bent in the
frenzy...I WANT TO SEE IT NOW, GIMMIE THAT!!! It's like anything in the
art room is fair game. If I see it and want to pick it up, I
do....YIKES! More and more often, I find it harder and harder to slow
them down. It's a frenetic world we live in, getting crazier year by
year. We HAVE to get them to notice beauty and value. What could be
more important?
