Project Title: Marionette Part 1
Medium: kinetic sculpture
Grade Theme: Humans and Fantasy

Overview:  Students will learn to construct a working marionette utilizing recycled egg cartons, paper, masking tape, and paint. In the second session of the sculpture unit, students will assemble their marionettes and add embellishment and detail.
Art Skills: sculpture, construction, cutting, taping, painting, gluing
Process: Students will crumple, rip and cut paper and recycled egg cartons and tape together a head shape out of upcycle cardboard materials. When all holes and joints are taped tight, they will paint them. We will also make the hands and feet and start the process of the cloth body. Sculpture parts will be left to dry and be stored until Part 2 when we return, next month to embellish and expand the form into a marionette.
Materials: cardboard, paper, masking tape, acrylic paint, felt
Tools Provided by Classroom: paint shirts/ smocks, scissors
Vocabulary: sculpture, 3D, upcycling, marionette, puppet, kinetic sculpture, character
Multiple Subject Integration: 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 a special art lesson making their own Marionettes.  They made heads out of paper and tape and painted them.  They began to create bodies out of felt and sculpt hands and feet. When the art teachers return, next month, we will add eyes and other fun embellishments.