“It smells weird in here. It smells like paint in here. Why does it smell in here? There’s paint on the floor. There’s paint on the table. There’s paint on my paper. There’s paint on my chair. My shirt has paint on it. My hands have paint on them. My hands are dirty. There’s clay on my hands. There’s clay on the table. There’s clay on the floor. There’s clay in my fingernails. There’s glue on my fingers. There’s glue on the table. My table’s wet. There’s water on my paper. There’s water on the floor. I found a crayon on the floor. I found a marker in the colored pencil bin. The pencil sharpener is noisy. It’s too loud in here. It’s cold in here. It’s hot in here.”
Every. Single. Day.
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Amen sista!
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muahahaha! Were you in my art room when you heard this?
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Ha!!!!!Excellent.
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Ahhhh… Yes!
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Exactly. Occasionally someone will bring me a staple that they found on the floor. A single, used staple.
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YES! Or a paper clip. Or a piece of itty bitty teeny tiny scrap paper.
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I love it! I love the way art smells! My room is my happy place no matter what anyone else says.
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Except on those days when I open the old paint or glaze. Ew.
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Hahaha! I love to ask my students to smell it to see if THEY THINK its gone bad. I know, that’s not nice. We all laugh TOGETHER. (Most of the time)
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Yep, We just slapped on some paper and hopefully my coffee will masked the bad paint that has been growing in that plastic container for months! hahahaha Love Science!
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You are starting to scare me because it’s like you are in my room listening. .. I’m wearing my tinfoil hat tomorrow.
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One more reason to be happy I got reduced.
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My favorite is my hands are dirty can I wash them?
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Laughing out loud!
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I’m in a fairly new charter. Took six months to convenience Adm. I needed the room with the sink, not a cart. Mind you there was a room with a sink. It was the almost never used teacher’s lounge. I don’t think watching a 50 year old woman try to push buckets of water around on the cart was the reason they finally gave me the room. I think it was the classroom teachers complaing about my smelly supplies coming into their room that did it. So here’s to smelly, messy supplies that no one else wants in their room.
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PREACH! I usually just say “it’s okay to have art hands, you are an artist!” It’s especially ridiculous with the older kids who have been in my classroom for years and know how we get down and dirty with some clay and paint.
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I usually tell them, “If you’re not getting dirty, you’re not doing it right.”
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Squeeze that mud through your fingers and wipe them on your pants!
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I had a student tell me the Sharpie ‘hurt his ears’, so he needed to use his own pencil. An odd little duck he is….
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At 58 years old, One of my only and fondest memory of kindergarden was the smell of the art room. GO FIGURE!
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Every single day! Plus the smell of melted crayon on the radiator! That’s mostly from the room’s previous (science) teacher but once in a while a catch a sneaky little melter over there and I freak out.
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