TOOTHPICK SCULPTURE
Subject:
Sculpture and Collage
Grade:
K-5
Age:
4-11
Submitted by:
Judith Walsh, Art Teacher
Driver and Florence Bowser Elementary Schools, Suffolk VA.
Objectives:
- Students will learn about sculpture
- Students will learn how to make a 3-D object
- Students can explore and create on their own
What You Need:
- small marshmallows
- toothpicks
- imagination
What You Do:
- Students will make a marshmallow sculpture by sticking toothpicks
into marshmallows and building up from a base.
- I gave each student 20
marshmallows and a handful of toothpicks.
- Next, I had them make a base by
sticking 4 toothpicks into 4 marshmallows and making a square.
- Then they
could build their sculpture up from there.
- My only rule was that they had to build up, not have
their sculpture lay flat on the table.
Notes: I did this lesson with my
kindergarten classes and they had a ball! They looked so cute carrying their
sculpture out of the room and cradling it in their hands like a fine piece of
china.
Another Idea:
"I have used dried peas soaked over night at the joints in sculpture. What happens is that the peas soften for the construction. Then they harden like little concrete balls as they dry. This is for second grade and up."
-Fran Salisbury
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http://www.kinderart.com/recycle/puzzletree.shtml
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http://www.kinderart.com/crafts/frame.shtml
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http://www.kinderart.com/painting/spinart.shtml
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http://www.kinderart.com/painting/tiedye1.shtml
Personalized Christmas Stockings
http://www.kinderart.com/seasons/stockings.shtml
See if You Can Draw
http://www.kinderart.com/drawing/seedraw.shtml
Toothpick Sculpure
http://www.kinderart.com/sculpture/toothpicksculpture.shtml
Recommended Books:
Make Sculpture
by: Kim Solga
Biography:
Judy Walsh is an art teacher at Driver and Florence Bowser Elementary Schools in Suffolk, VA
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