Project Title: Bird or Flying object Sculpture Part 1
Medium: Recycled cardboard, masking tape, acrylic paint, embellishments
Grade Theme: Land and Sky

Overview: Students will learn to construct a bird or sky object sculpture utilizing recycled egg cartons, cardboard tubes, masking tape and paint. In the second session of the sculpture unit, students will expand their sculptures with embellishments and details.
Art Skills: sculpture, construction, cutting, taping, painting
Process: Students will fold, rip and cut cardboard and tape together a body shape out of upcycle cardboard materials. When all holes and joints are taped tight, they will paint them entirely in one color. Sculptures will be left to dry and be stored until Part 2 when we return, next month to embellish and expand the form into a detailed bird, airplane or other object.

Materials: Cardboard, masking tape, acrylic paint

Tools Provided by Classroom: paint shirts/ smocks, scissors
Vocabulary: sculpture, 3D, upcycling, joint, embellish, body
Multiple Subject Integration: Environment, adaptation, Food chain

*Please note that samples were made by teaching artists. Students will be encouraged to make their own versions of this project. Please DO NOT show students these samples in advance of the art lesson.

Description Summary: Today students had the first of a two-part special art lesson making bird and sky sculptures. They cut and folded and taped the parts together and painted them bright colors. When the art teachers return we will add eyes and other fun embellishments to them.