Our Museum of Art
The other day I had an idea pop in my head to make a museum in our school room. I knew I wanted to do some thing being creative; that involved a positive association for school stuff and try to get Daniel involved with using more textured items and to work with his hands. Daniel loves the museum, so I thought maybe he would want to participate if we made our own. It turned out to be a great success. All of the kids loved it. We went through several of our books on art history and their children books about art and went with it. I was so excited with their creations and also that Daniel participated with all of them.
After their creations had dried, we set up our room and had an exhibit ready for showing.
David was our guest of honor. All of the kids were so proud of themselves and loved showing David around and telling him how they did it and what inspired them. They named all of their creations and I made cards with the titles and their names. I dressed up and served chocolate covered bananas and water, we are on a limited budget. We are a museum in need of serious funds. 
This was a great day and I plan on keeping with the theme each month doing a new exhibit, next month I think we will be doing a dinosaur exhibit or maybe Lego’s, I haven’t decided yet. Maybe I will ask the kids what they want to do and go with that.
As we did each project I was amazed at how much Daniel really wanted to participate.
He did have to take a break for a while then come back and we all hit a bit of a sensory overload because of all of the textures, smells, drawing, gluing, and cutting. Overall though it went very well. There was a moment when I felt helpless watching Daniel trying to draw his butterfly. He was trying so hard and getting frustrated. He was using a picture diagram to help do the drawing, the struggle between his brain and his hands was both familiar and painful. He almost lost it but I rubbed his back and told him that it was alright we can try again and I turned the paper over and asked him if he wanted to try on this side. He did and I have a picture of his butterfly below. I told him how proud I was of him for trying and it was a great butterfly.
Here are some photos of the exhibit.
