Project Title: Fish/ Sea Animal Sculpture Part 1
Medium: Recycled cardboard, masking tape, acrylic paint, embellishments
Grade Theme: Oceans and Fish

Overview: Students will learn to construct a sea creature sculpture utilizing recycled egg cartons, toilet paper cardboard tubes, masking tape, and paint. In the second session of the sculpture unit, students will finish 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 upcycled cardboard materials.  When all holes and joints are taped tight, they will paint the sculptures entirely in one color.  Sculptures will be left to dry and must be stored by the classroom teacher until Part 2 when we return, next month to embellish and expand the form into a detailed fish or other sea creature. 
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: Link to Art History and Connection
Multiple Subject Integration: Environmental Science, anatomy, engineering

*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 sea creature sculptures.  They cut and folded and taped the parts together and painted them bright colors.  When the art teachers return we will finish them and add eyes and other fun embellishments to them.