Project Title: Marionette Part 2
Medium: kinetic sculpture
Grade Theme: Humans and Fantasy

Overview: Students will create sculpted marionettes
Art Skills:  Construction, modeling, painting, design, engineering
Process: Students will add hair, bodies, hands and feet, and other embellishments.  They will (with teacher assistance) assemble the marionettes with their control bars and learn how to manipulate their movements.
Materials: Felt, wiggle eyes, string, pipe cleaners, hot glue.
Tools Provided by Classroom: Scissors
Vocabulary: Marionette, 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 the second of a two-part special art lesson making their own Marionettes.  They added eyes, hair and details that helped their marionettes display their characters.