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, tp 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 recycled 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 objects.
Materials: cardboard, masking tape, acrylic paint
Tools Provided by Classroom: paint shirts/ smocks, scissors
Vocabulary: sculpture: Three-dimensional art (meaning you can look at it from the front, back, top, or bottom) made by one of four basic processes: carving, modeling, casting, and constructing.
Additional Resource: Amazing Birds
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.