Supplies: glue stick + scissors + magazines or colored paper
+ markers
How to:
1) Imagine yourself.
2) Start with plain background or picture from a magazine.
3) Out of colored paper or magazines, cut out your head, nose, mouth, eyes, hair, hat, bow tie, horns, whatever you imagine.
4) Glue to background paper.
Examples: Alesia’s self-portrait + Studio 6 students’ self-portraits
Emotion Cylinder
How are you today? Express how you feel through the language of drawing. Make a changing emotion cylinder (or just free draw on paper!). Examples: Happy, Sad, Sleepy, or Angry (just draw--there are no mistakes!).
Supplies: Glue stick + clear tape or masking tape + scissors + heavy paper or cereal box cut open + markers + Optional: Magazines
How to:
1) Lay out two sheets of heavy paper or two cereal boxes cut to 11 ½ x 8 ½ inch rectangle.
2) On one of the pieces of paper, draw a small (about 2” diameter”) circle in the upper third of the paper. Make the circle using a circular container cap or by free hand.
3) Cut out the circle.
4) Draw a figure or glue a figure from a magazine around the cut out circle, pretending that the circle is the head.
5) Use the paper with the figure as a pattern. Lay it on top of the second piece of paper and draw a circle where the cut out circle is. Repeat this twice—once to left of your first circle and once to the right of you first circle so you have 3 circles about 1” apart.
6) You now have 3 circles. Draw your feelings or find faces from a magazine and cut out and place in the circle.
7) Attach a small tab to the top of the page with the three faces. This will help you turn the inside cylinder later on.
8) Make the first cylinder with the page with the faces and tape.
9) Make a second cylinder with the page with the figure by going around the first cylinder. Tape it.
Set the cylinder somewhere so everyone can see. This will warn them as to how you are feeling today!!
Flextangles
Flextangles are so much fun to create and play with. They are a nice activity because they don’t take a lot of materials, but can easily kill some time.
The Flextangle template can be found by clicking on the link below. The instructions are even on the template, so there is no need to include them here.
Tips
- A tacky glue such as rubber cement or tacky craft glue is best. Glue sticks will not hold the paper together well.
Source
- Blog: Babble Dabble Do
Puzzle Piece Murals
As the title suggests, this mural is in pieces. Each piece is printed out, colored in, and hung on a wall in order. For our mural, we bought a PDF kit of pieces to print out. If you want to do the same, the link is in is the Source section below. If you don't want to buy a kit, find an image to color, adjust the size, and print it out in pieces.
"Baby (Cradle)" by Gustav Klimt.
There are puzzle piece murals for paintings created by Gustav Klimt on Art Projects for Kids.
Materials
Printed out copies of each puzzle piece
Markers
Tape
Instructions
Color puzzle pieces.
Put all of the colored pieces in order.
Hang on wall with tape.
Tips
Color in, or at least decorate, the whole page (even in-between/empty spaces). It makes the finished project more striking and fun to look at.
This is a good project for older and younger kids to do together.
Sources
- Puzzle pieces: artprojectsforkids.org
Monster Mash-Up Book
This cute mix-n-match flip book can produce some hilarious results! Make it as scary as you want or add more pages to make more combinations.
Materials
- 2 pieces of white printer paper
- 1 piece of construction paper (at least the same size as the white paper)
- Markers
- Stapler & staples
- Scissors
Instructions
- Fold all of the papers in half length-wise (so the page is 4 ¼” x 11”)
- Place the pages inside of each other like a book, with the construction paper as the cover.
- Staple the pages together at the fold. To do so, unfold the pages and staple through the 3 pages at the crease. Close back up like a book.
- Cut the white inside pages horizontally into thirds. The top third will be for heads, the middle for bodies, and the bottom for legs.
- On the first page (all of the thirds) draw a creature, keeping the body sections separated. Repeat for the rest of the 3 pages.
- Flip the different page sections to mix and match body parts and create weird looking monsters.
Tips
- It takes more time, but the book looks nice when the body sections align somewhat. Try your best!