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Ms. Nicastro from Huntersville, NC is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Get Messy in Art With Oil Pastels

Help me give my students the opportunity to use exciting oil pastels instead in place of the boring crayons.

  • $254 goal

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My Students

My students are amazing artists! I would like to spark their creativity by using new and exciting materials in the classroom. Art is one of my students favorite subjects. It creates new challenges for my students and offers an array of final products.

When creativity sparks, it is important to keep the momentum going.

Keeping students interested and using problem solving skills is at the root of our art classes. In 45 minutes, we are learning about artists, ideas, and techniques.

My students, school staff, and student families embrace art as an integral part of education and believe that art helps students embrace who they are as individuals.

My Project

Crayons are a basic tool in school, unfortunately they can become pretty boring and redundant, especially in the art classroom. I want to step up the excitement and teach my students how to use OIL PASTELS. They look like a crayon, but create so many more learning opportunities for students. Oil Pastels do more than your average coloring material.

While crayons, markers, and colored pencils are fantastic, the oil pastel surpasses them in fun and creates new excitement in art making.

We will use oil pastels to explore color relationships, learn how to blend and make new colors easily, dive into comparing and contrasting the benefits of oil pastels versus more traditional materials, and learn how to use oil pastels in a mixed media artwork.

Ms. Nicastro North Academy of World Languages Grades 3-5

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Huntersville, NC View local requests

More than a third of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
20013-5009 - Sakura Cray-Pas Junior Artist Oil Pastels - Set of 50 Assorted Colors • Blick Art Materials $7.71 10 $77.10
10266-1309 - Pacon Bright White Sulphite Drawing Paper - 18" x 24", 80 lb, 500 Sheets • Blick Art Materials $51.45 1 $51.45
20066-1336 - Crayola Oil Pastels - Assorted Colors, Classpack of 336 • Blick Art Materials $40.88 1 $40.88

Materials cost

$169.43

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $13.22

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.54

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$215.19

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$37.97

Total project goal

$253.16

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $253.16

4 Donors

-$248.75

Donations toward project cost

-$215.19

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.56

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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