Auction Project

Each Year, TIS hosts an auction to raise money for special projects. This year, they're trying to generate funds for Books, Learning Resources & Technology. Good goals.

The boy's classes set to work creating an original work of art to donate to the auction. Ry's class made some greeting cards - 22 lovely cards suitable for presenting to anyone. Each child painted one picture and then drew an original, complete with title. Here are the pictures that Ry made. He even wrote his name on one of his cards

Ben's class took a different approach this year. Super mom Diane had the idea to present the kids in silhouette form doing what kids do best - running, jumping and playing. I enlisted the help of photographer extraordinaire Beth of Studio J Images. Nice to have such skilled family members, especially when they are so willing to help (and even donate to the auction!). Some people really are extra awesome. Since my description is a little abstract, here's images that show the process.

First, we took pictures of the kids playing and running and jumping and kicking and swinging and sliding. Lots of pictures. We narrowed down the choices and sent a few of each child to Beth. Here's the one I took of Ben:

She worked some voodoo magic in really record time and came up with this:

Fifteen times. Yes, that's right. One for each child in the class. Then she used a potion of chicken feathers, dog toenails and apple peels, said a few magic words and came up with this up with this: