kindergarten paper sculptures

Paper sculptures

I found this awesome lesson for kindergarten from Cassie Stephens. Thanks Cassie!! Her original blog post can be found here https://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/2018/08/in-art-room-getting-to-know-you-paper.html
This is a perfect lesson to do at the beginning of year for kindergartners. Honestly kindergarten is tough in August. I love this lesson because all they have to do is fold the paper and use glue and crayons. On the first day of class (we have 50 minute classes) we discussed what sculptures and paintings are and the difference between the two. I try to use examples that students may be exposed to such as a statue on display at the Solid Rock Church in our community.  This photo was taken from Wikipedia.

This statue is pretty popular and all the students were pretty excited when I showed them this photo.

For the art project I provided various colors of cut construction paper strips for students to fold and glue onto their 12" x 9" multi-media white paper. Cassie has a great way to teach them how to fold the paper. You will have to check out her video posted on her blog. She teaches them to make little feet for their paper lines. It works like a charm!

On the second day we discussed various types of lines. They used crayons to draw lines onto the strips before they glued them to their previous sculptures. 

I was so surprised how well these turned out. 

They absolutely loved this lesson and were so proud of their sculptures.

These were hard to store so I allowed them to take them home after the glue had dried. I like to provide parents with an explanation of the project so students took home a little note about what they had learned from the project.