Sculpture - Paper Playground

 Making a Paper Playground Sculpture:

Materials:

- Paper strips 1" wide

- Base

- Glue stick or Elmer's Glue

Today we are going to make a paper sculpture of a playground. Sculpture is three-dimensional. You can see it from many sides because it stands up from the base. 

Think about last time you played on a playground...

What were some of your favorite things to play on?

photo from RaisingArizonaKids.com

Playgrounds: 

Look for lines and shapes as you watch!

Paper sculpture techniques:

Roll

Accordian Fold 

Fringe

Video for techniques

Artists at Work: Tearing and cutting with paper

  Paper Play! 

Create

1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

A. Play & Ideation

Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials

Create

2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

A. Skill Acquisition

Through experimentation on, build skills in various media and approaches to art making.

Tearing Paper
Artists sometimes use their hands to tear paper. 
What kind of shapes do you see?
Why do you think this artist used torn shapes? 

from Leo Lionni's book Frederick

Paper tearing:

• With the grain
• Against the grain
• Finger position
• Tearing a Line
• Tearing a Shape

Video for tearing and cutting

Cutting Paper

Artists use scissors to change the shape of paper.  

How can you tell that the artist cut these shapes with scissors?
What shapes do you see?

The Snail by Henri Matisse

Cutting Shapes:

• Using Scissors
  -safety-how to hold
  -scissors poem
• Cutting squares, rectangles, and triangles
  -using more than one strategy

Arranging Shapes: 

What will you think about as you arrange your shapes? 

Try several arrangements

Dog made by Kindergarten student

Share Time/Reflection:
What two ways can you make shapes with paper? 
What kind of shapes can you make by tearing? cutting? 
Which method to you enjoy most?

Tearing and Cutting Shapes

 

Crayon!

 Virtual Lesson/In person Learning

              What can I do with a crayon?

As artists we will discover many ways to use materials in the art room. 

What is a crayon, and how is it made?

How crayons are Made-Mr. Rogers

How to make a crayon video link

5:49-11:52

Let's try some different ways we can 

 use our crayons!

Materials needed:

Crayons

2 or 3 of broken, peeled crayons

2 half sheets of copy paper

Small piece of consruction paper and a few small squares of construction paper

glue stick

Video Lesson