The Chocolate Muffin Tree: Lines

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Styrofoam Monster Sculptures

I saw this idea for Line Sculptures at Art is Basic and we kind of combined it with our Styrofoam and Toothpick Sculptures to make Styrofoam Monster Sculptures! I was just going to show Cassie how to create different kinds of lines with pipe cleaners: curvy, zig-zag, spiral, and she ended up wanting to create these monsters!

To create this project we used styrofoam scraps, pipe cleaners, sharpie markers, and pencils.

C's favorite technique was wrapping the pipe cleaner around the pencil to create a spring/spiral line. She wanted to make this over and over! Good fine motor skills! She added a face on the styrofoam and the pipe cleaners were like the monster's hair!

This was C's finished creation.

Here is mine.

We had a lot of fun and C keeps asking to create more of these monsters!

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

A Hat Like The Cat In The Hat!

I told Cassie that today we were going to make a Dr. Seuss hat. I told her who Dr. Seuss was and that he wrote all the books with "the cat in the hat" on it! Soon after this, she went to grab all of our Dr. Seuss books and wanted me to read them all to her!!! We definitely had a Dr. Seuss filled day! Here is the hat we made----it could be a sculpture too:

First, we used two 12"x18" white papers taped together on the 18" sides (or use a 24"x36" paper).

We cut a bunch of 1 inch by 36 inch strips of colored paper for the stripes of the hat.

We glued the stripes using tiny dots of white glue across the colored papers.

I helped to pick the long stripe of paper up and turn it over onto the large white paper. Too hard for a preschooler! You could create a pattern or multi-colors.

Next, to make the hat "extra fancy" we painted between the stripes with shape and line details!

My daughter decided to paint on the stripes too and I think that looks great too! BEAUTIFUL WORK!
Now, to let it dry for a few hours!

Before fitting it to wear----fringe one longer side about three inches in or so! Fold up the fringe for the brim of the hat.

I carefully shaped the fringed end around my daughter's head, took it off then stapled it! (kinda tricky to get the right fit at first!) Then, I stapled the top and then it was ready to wear or display!