Past projects 11
Art Supplies for New Art Teacher!
Funded Nov 8, 2024We are left speechless by your generosity! It means the world to us that you covered so much art supplies and materials for our new art teacher so she and her students don't have to struggle in an empty classroom. Your kindness will provide them with what they need to make amazing artworks this year and to be successful and creative without the stress of figuring out supplies! Thank you again!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Combs
Building Love of Art, One Lego Block at a Time
Funded Dec 7, 2023Thank you so much for donating the lego supplies! We cannot wait to start making art with them! Middle-school kids are so tactile-driven, wanting to touch, fell, handle, manipulate, construct, and deconstruct in order to learn - and who doesn't love legos! The inspiration for the lego art is the multitude of pixel-art variations that are showing up everywhere lately. We haven't used the legos yet for a pixel project, because I need to plan and develop the specifics of the lesson and process, but it will be an awesome learning opportunity that will absolutely engage all learners, even those kids among us who don't always click with art. Because everyone clicks with play. And we are going to make play into art! You helped this vision come to life, so thank you!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Combs
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 5 other donors.PBIS Incentives/Rewards for Good Behavior!
Funded Jan 17, 2024This donation request was filled in ONE DAY and we are so grateful! The PBIS Team works hard to make sure the students have exciting and motivating incentives for good behavior, with options at all levels of participation, whether it be low-priced fidget toys to encourage a kid just starting out on their journey all the way up to specialty Bluetooth earbuds or even field trips away from school for the kid who has been hoarding good behavior points for a while. But we couldn't do any of this without the support of our RMS community! Your amazing and generous donation stocked our PBIS Store for the rest of the school year and gave the students new incentives to work hard for! Robinson Middle School is SO lucky to have a community family like you! Thank you so much!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Combs
It's Finally "Next Time"!
Funded Apr 7, 2023We are so grateful for the new supplies! "It's Finally Time" was a project to request some materials we usually leave off of our annual order due to price and just necessity. It was so nice to be able to ask for supplies to do some big hands-on projects, like clay-finger-painting in Van Gogh's impasto style and Shrinky-Dinks to bedazzle backpacks. Though we haven't yet done the clay-finger-painting, the ladder has come in useful multiple times, helping us hang beautiful student-made papel picados for Hispanic Heritage Month and even the janitors have borrowed it for their work. We have been grateful all over school for the materials in this recent donation!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Combs
Basics + a Little Fun = Inspiration
Funded Nov 29, 2022The donation of art supplies we received last Fall from the "Basics + a Little Fun = Inspiration" request led to so much fun and our biggest project of the school year! One of the biggest parts of the project request was printmaking supplies, like inks, brayers, carving blades, and linoleum for carving. For Black History Month this Spring, we researched the amazing contemporary portrait artist Kehinde Wiley and students were challenged to create a pencil-drawn self-portrait with a patterned background like Wiley creates, but with a twist: the repeated pattern was a personally-symbolic logo they designed, carved into a stamp, and printed using the printmaking supplies you made possible! The results were amazing and pushed my students' skills and assumptions of what was possible.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Combs
This classroom project was brought to life by an Anonymous Classroom Supporter and one other donor.New Art Projects to Spark Creativity!
Funded Sep 23, 2021Thank you so much for your donations to the Art Room! The students were so excited to try using new materials! It does get difficult to make colored pencils and markers exciting month after month, so 3D crafting materials and more advanced drawing tools and such can really "up" the engagement factor in the Art Room! We made holiday ornaments, built papier mache alebrije sculptures, learned how to design a 3D cube, and experimented with oil pastels in sweet food drawings for our upcoming Spring art show! These new and more advanced materials really got the kids excited and engaged, which in turn resulted in awesome work produced and so much confidence inspired!
Again, thank you so much!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Combs
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 2 other donors.Essential Supplies for the Art Room
Funded Aug 12, 2021The art students at Robinson Middle School are so grateful for your support! Those essential supplies helped us start out this year on the right foot! Every student has a sketchbook in which to keep their drawings, and we have plenty of pencils, erasers, markers, and other materials to use for the rest of the year. You should have seen how excited they were to unbox everything! They were digging into the boxes, sorting and counting items, and helping organize everything onto shelves and into cabinets. I love seeing how excited they get over new supplies, even just simple little classroom basics, and you made it happen with your generosity. We thank you!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Combs
This classroom project was brought to life by Bill Gates and 6 other donors.Student Creations: Brought to Life
Funded Dec 1, 2020We cannot thank you enough for the Cricut, heat press, and printing and cutting supplies! My students were so excited when they saw it and could not stop asking when we would use it. Since Art Club did not get a field trip this year with Covid restrictions, I made sure they got a special event before the end of the year - making vinyls for items they bring in. They designed the Art Club logo first, then the entire club voted on one design, and we printed sticky vinyls for all of Art Club to heat-press onto items they brought in. They were SO excited and are already flooding in with applications to be in next year's Art Club to continue participating in activities like this.
While I requested it for our Art classes and our Art Club, the entire school is excited about its presence. Admin hope to use it for teacher gifts next year, and the other art teacher and I have big plans for continuing the graphic design projects in our Art classes. Students will be able to create their own graphic design logos and then print them for all kinds of items, bringing their creations to life. Thank you for opening this world to them!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Combs
This classroom project was brought to life by FamilyAlbum and 8 other donors.Bound for Creativity with an Art Library
Funded Mar 6, 2020We are so excited to build our art library at Robinson Middle School! There was only a small collection of old textbooks in the art room and now we have a collection of fun, age-appropriate art books that the kids are excited to pull off the shelf and explore!
I was so excited to find books like drawing how-to books and calligraphy how-to books! Growing up, I had a collection of drawing books that I loved and I am so excited that my kids now get to experience the confidence and thrill of creating an artwork step by step from nothing. My kids are already excited to dive into calligraphy because the step by step books and tracing paper make it seem completely approachable and possible!
I'm so excited to watch my kids try new things because, even though almost anything can be found on the internet, there is something comforting and approachable about a step by step in a tangible familiar book. Thank you for helping my kids discover the explorer in side!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Combs
This classroom project was brought to life by A group of anonymous donors and 4 other donors.Save Space and Lives
Funded Nov 3, 2019We are very glad to have our new shelves up! The kids were so excited to unload boxes of supplies onto the shelves - it was like Christmas morning as they saw all the supplies and materials that had been hidden in stacked boxes!
The shelves have completely changed that closet and opened up the space. Several students have walked in with "wow" and "check this out!" as they explore the new space. Before I kind of just kept them out of the messy closet and hoped we wouldn't have a lockdown - now the students go in and explore materials readily accessible to them! Thanks to you, it is a safer, cleaner space that will inspire my young artists!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Combs