Week 6: Koinobori Inspired Paper Kites
You will need:
*paper
*scissors
* glue or tape
*pencil
*ruler or straight edge
*something to color with (crayons/marker/paint)
Week 5: Cardboard Faces inspired by Cantrell
You will need:
*Cardboard
*scissors
* glue
*crayons
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Instructions
On a half sheet of paper create a sketch of your face in pencil. You can make a face or a person, cat, dog, panda, dragon.... whatever you can think of!
Make sure you trace each different layer of shapes in a different color. If the shape is drawn on top of another shape then that is a different layer. Number the different color layers.
Draw you shapes on the back of the cardboard and then cut them out with your scissors starting with the 1st layer. DO NOT GLUE YET!
Place your shapes on top of your face background to create your design.
Gently move your shapes to the side.
Color the edges with black crayon and then color all the shapes with different colors.
Carefully glue your shapes onto the face.
Week 4: Paper Animal Sphere
You will need:
-copy paper or construction paper
-scissors
-glue or tape
-cup or lid to trace
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Instructions
Pick a cup or something circle shaped to trace in the corner of your paper.
Color the paper with the pattern of the animal/creature/object that you want to make.
Cut out the circle.
Color you paper with the same texture on your large piece of paper.
Cut 4 long equal strips from the paper.
Fold the bottom of the strips 1/2 an inch.
Glue the bottom of the strips to make a loop.
Glue the rest of the strips in an x shape to make your sphere.
Make a head using the same steps or folding a cut out shape of the head.
Week 3: Newspaper Fish & Critters
You will need:
-some newspaper (or magazines, ads)
-scissors
-glue
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7 steps
Draw a fish or shape of your critter on your paper
Draw an extra outline around the shape
Cut it out.
Trace the first shape on a second sheet of paper, cut it out.
Glue the two papers together by putting glue only on the edge of the paper, leave the tail open, LET IT DRY.
Crumple small pieces of paper and stuff the fish. Glue the fin shut when you finish.
Cut and glue on details like scales, eyes, fins and whatever you would like!
Newspaper Fish example by Ms. Gallo
Week 2 Paper Pulp Sculpture
Learn how to make sculptures with just paper and water!
You will need:
-a bowl of water
-a plastic plate
-4 shredded pieces of paper (or more if you want your project to be larger
-2 pieces of paper
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4 steps
Tear up the paper and soak it in water to make pulp
Sculpt the paper
Let the paper dry
Paint with watercolors, paint, or color with crayons.
Paper pulp heart sculpture
Example
Learn about 3-D objects and how to design your own 3-D object by drawing with different perspectives.
You will need:
-paper or a sketchbook
-pencil
-imagination!
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Vocabulary
3-D: Something that has 3 dimensions: height, width, and length.
sculpture: 3-D art
design: the sketch, outline, or plan of a project.
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Design something that could be 3D like:
a house
a stuffed animal
a person
You can design your own or use the templates below.
Guided Drawing Templates (print)