Button Designing!
Thank you to Peter Greendale from our annual Fine Arts Conference for the great ideas...
Elbow Park School staff and students in Calgary have been living in modulars for the past 3.5 years. This was all because of the flood of 2013. Life was pretty tight there, working in one long hallway of portables, and a gym that looked more like a beer tent. It was decided that the old school would be restored, and man, is it ever amazing. Now that we are back in, there is so much to celebrate and commemorate.
One of the ways students and I decided to commemorate the reopening of the school was with buttons! Also known as badges, every student in our school will receive one in honor of the school reopening.
Originally, students were going to make buttons as a way to fundraise for this year's Terry Fox Run. Our button machines were ordered from "People Power Press". We purchased the 3-size kit of 1", 2.25" and 3" buttons. However, the Terry Fox committee did such a good job of advertising and coming into classrooms, we ended up with over $17,000 in donations and no bribery needed!
Instead, we took the opportunity of a new school opening to create a button design contest. Students could submit their designs with an emphasis on the design representing our school, community and/or the reopening.
Many designs were submitted, and it was a great way to raise awareness in our students that this was a historic occasion for the community. They had 2 choices for submitting. The first was hand drawing the design on a 6" template I provided, the second to create one digitally online. The program I used was www.thebuttonguy.net.
The process has been a great opportunity for leadership, community participation and the creation of buttons! Now we have 7 designs that can be used again and again for sale in the office. Students that are helping at lunch to make the buttons are now skilled to teach students around the school how to use the button machine. And the machine will be added to our Maker Space when the time is right.
Here are the winning designs:
Elbow Park School staff and students in Calgary have been living in modulars for the past 3.5 years. This was all because of the flood of 2013. Life was pretty tight there, working in one long hallway of portables, and a gym that looked more like a beer tent. It was decided that the old school would be restored, and man, is it ever amazing. Now that we are back in, there is so much to celebrate and commemorate.
One of the ways students and I decided to commemorate the reopening of the school was with buttons! Also known as badges, every student in our school will receive one in honor of the school reopening.
Originally, students were going to make buttons as a way to fundraise for this year's Terry Fox Run. Our button machines were ordered from "People Power Press". We purchased the 3-size kit of 1", 2.25" and 3" buttons. However, the Terry Fox committee did such a good job of advertising and coming into classrooms, we ended up with over $17,000 in donations and no bribery needed!
Instead, we took the opportunity of a new school opening to create a button design contest. Students could submit their designs with an emphasis on the design representing our school, community and/or the reopening.
Many designs were submitted, and it was a great way to raise awareness in our students that this was a historic occasion for the community. They had 2 choices for submitting. The first was hand drawing the design on a 6" template I provided, the second to create one digitally online. The program I used was www.thebuttonguy.net.
The process has been a great opportunity for leadership, community participation and the creation of buttons! Now we have 7 designs that can be used again and again for sale in the office. Students that are helping at lunch to make the buttons are now skilled to teach students around the school how to use the button machine. And the machine will be added to our Maker Space when the time is right.
Here are the winning designs:
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