Fundraising

Today we had our final presentations for our fieldwork. It was interesting to hear other people's experience in their fieldwork. Some students seemed to have a similar experience to mine and some people seemed to have a very different experience. One thing that most of the students have in common was that there were limited funds for art supplies. I know that this is a major problem in most school districts. This made me think of outside ways that a teacher could raise money to help their students. One thing that I always remember in my art classrooms is yogurt containers. When you are dealing with a limited budget, you have to be resourceful. When I was observing in a previous class I remember one of my teacher said that she saves everything and figures out something to do with them later. She saves water bottles, egg crates, yogurt containers...I remember her saying that it is better to have extra supplies and not need them rather then needing supplies and not having them.

Art room fundraising

Money saving tips for the classroom

These are two articles I found that give tips on how to save money in the classroom and also how to fundraise money for the art classroom. I anticipate that is going to be a never ending battle in art rooms so as art teachers we need to do everything that we can to make our classrooms better.