Oversized Paper Sunflower
filmed live on Instagram
This course was filmed in front of a live Instagram audience in July 2019.
It uses 180 crepe paper from Carte Fini.
A hot glue gun is also required.
Due to the informal nature of this course, you may find yourself with extra questions. Please feel free to ask! Each segment has a comment section, and you can email me also.
Your Instructor
A Master of Science in Education with a dozen years in the classroom, plus roles writing curriculum, connecting classrooms, writing policy, and organizing data, Amity is a teacher, writer, artist, and friend.
She is the principal behind the creative education studio, flower and jane. Her online art school features teaching artists from around the world with over 1500 students enrolled in creative botanical education courses.
Amity and her family live in a family cottage surrounded by tall pines and ancient apple trees in the midcoast region of Maine. They love to have adventures in nature!
Amity has been featured on Channel 8 News, DownEast, Veranda, and the Bangor Daily News. Her artwork is represented by the Good Supply.
Amity's research on open educational resources was federally funded during the Obama administration. She has presented at the state level and internationally in the field of teaching with technology. She has written curriculum for Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens as well as for her own company and hosted two educational conferences on biodiversity and conservation for Maine teachers.