A.C.E. - Papier-mâché Lanterns

We used colored tissue paper, wheat paste, colored wire and a balloon for this festive project.

Our lanterns are not unlike those that you might see during a Chinese New Year celebration.

A.C.E. - 3-D Collage Boxes & Scrap Paper Collages

3-D Collage Boxes

Collage is overlapping paper.  For this project, we recycled tissue boxes and cut symmetrical shapes out of construction paper.  We overlapped the paper and voila!

Scrap Paper Collages 

Not a single piece of paper was wasted in these projects.  We used the shapes that we cut out for the 3-D collage boxes to create a second collage.  Can you tell which scraps came from which box?

5th Grade - Foil Tooled Masks

We learned about the art of mask-making from many cultures and time periods.  There are four main reasons that societies make masks.  They are used for story-telling (plays, movies, etc.), celebrations, wars, and religion. 

We planned ahead for our masks by sketching out what we wanted our masks to look like. It’s always a great idea to have a game plan. 

We used wooden tools to push and pull pieces of foil to give our masks form.  These masks are a kind of low-relief sculpture.

3rd Grade- Radial Symmetry Weavings

We learned about people from many cultures who use weavings for both functional and decorative purposes. Our weavings are functional for holding coins, or something solid, but not for eating out of.
The weavings we've created with yarn and a paper plate are symmetrical from the center and all the way around in a circle. This is called radial symmetry.

In radial weaving, artists weave in and out of spokes- not unlike the structure of spokes on a bicycle or car wheel. Wouldn't a bike look interesting with yarn weaved through it's spokes?