Books About Sculpture

There are so many resources available to teachers now, with the internet, pinterest, great art blogs etc but don't forget the old way - Books!

There are so many titles around now that can inspire us, put them in a learning centre with materials and see what the students create!

Here a just a few...

 

Just take a look in the Library!

Belinda

Wire Birds

Wire Birds

First we started with a shape of a bird.

Next we made the eye from a wooden button.

For the feathers we threaded some beads onto colourful wire.   

 

 

Amanda 

 

Butterfly Pegs

Butterfly Pegs

 We started with a wooden peg and the carefully covered it with some pattern paper.

  

 Next we curled colourful wire to make the antennas.
 

After that we painted some white tissue paper with watercolours to make the wings.

Finally, we pegged them to a vase full of sticks from our playground.

Amanda



Sculptural Trees made out of Recycled Paper 

We began by cutting newspaper into strips about 15cm wide. We dipped the strips in water that had glue mixed in, and let them soak for a few minutes then removed them from the water and let them drip.

Then, we started from one corner, begin twisting the strips tightly.

We had to help each other with this.

We had to do this 15 times to make enough to make one tree. We put the strips into a bundle and tied it together, then began arranging the roots and branches in place. Then we had to wait until they dried. Drying took a good 48 hours.  After they dried, we just glued them together.

Then it was time to start applying the leaves. We lightly flattened paper rolls and cut them into 1cm strips. We stuck the leaves to the branches in a random pattern, making sure it looked like a tree.

Find all the instructions at Childmade Blog
http://childmadetutorials.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/paper-roll-twisted-oak-tree.html

Belinda