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

INSTALLATIONS
We were inspired by our visit to the Art Gallery of New South Wales to create some installations in the classroom.

   Box jellysnip           Leap into Stories        Spinning Flower

Differences (friends stick together)         Neat or Not Neat

Louise

Picasso Guitars

My Year Two class has had lots of time exploring sculpture and I decided it was time to see if they could put into practice what they had learned. We are doing an artist study of Pablo Picasso and his guitar sculptures made out of cardboard seemed the perfect thing as we had done collage using Picasso as inspiration the previous week. I gave them cardboard boxes, tape, scissors, cardboard from inside toilet rolls, string and some templates to help them with the shape of their string instrument and off they went...

Link to Picasso Guitar sculpture images

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=picasso+guitar&client=firefox-a&hs=Hea&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=0ZWlUd3pL_GTiAfw6ICYDA&ved=0CDAQsAQ&biw=1781&bih=843

Belinda

Exploring Sculpture

Our First Project

We began our first sculpture project based on a sculpture using recycles plastic bottles. I cut the bottoms off the bottles and the students shaped them into flower like shapes. They punched to holes in each piece and wired them together using florist wire. As we were doing a topic of Inquiry on Water we hung the sculpture so it looked like a waterfall.

 This became an ongoing learning centre that the students worked on over a number of weeks.

Belinda

Exploring Sculpture

First Explorations

I’ve started by introducing the concept of sculpture to my Year 2 class by setting out a number of materials in a learning centre for the students to explore. They were attracted by the variety of materials and tried them all but familiar construction material was the most popular. They knew the techniques to connect and create with this so possibly felt more confident to be creative.

They decided to create their own versions of creatures. 


 

Belinda