If you follow Deep Space Sparkle in any way, this may look familiar to you. Although Deep Space Sparkle is 100% responsible for this idea, I executed this project in a completely different way. I began this project by introducing them to a variety of sculpture terms in the form of a PowerPoint presentation.
Here is the Sculpture 101 PowerPoint.
After the PowerPoint, I had them draw 7 medium sized ovals, 1 small oval and a triangle on a sheet of drawing paper. Below is an example of what their paper looked like.
I have access to watercolor crayons at my school so that is how we added color to our shapes. You can use whatever medium you’d like! The only MUST have are the highlight(s) that should be on each shape (yes even the small oval and triangle)! Remind students that without the highlights, the balloon won’t look “shiny.” Once each shape has color, move onto the background.
The [initial] PowerPoint, shape drawing and coloring took one class period (50mins). Below is the PowerPoint I introduced at the beginning of the next class period. It is a review of the vocab terms. I only see my elementary kids once a week so this was a good refresher/assessment.
We completed the rest of the project in the following order:
- Draw a cityscape (we used crayons but you can use whatever you’d like).
- Draw a bush on green paper. Add details such as: eyes popping out, flowers, bugs, etc. Cut out and glue ON TOP of the cityscape.
- Draw fire hydrant. Cut out and glue to side walk. You can do a live teacher demo on how to draw a fire hydrant, make a step by step handout or display an image of a hydrant on the board. The fire hydrant is an addition I made to the Deep Space Sparkle project. I wanted the hydrant to show the scale of the “sculpture” in comparison to the hydrant.
Along with all the sculpture vocab they were learning, I threw in the terms background, middle ground and foreground. We watched the following video and then examined our own project by labeling each section. (background = cityscape, middle ground = bush, foreground = sculpture/ hydrant)
Last but not least…cutting out each shape and assembling them correctly. See student examples below for structure reference. Drop shadows were added at the end for that extra touch of realism.
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