BUGS!The theme for day 2 was bugs. Those who know me well know that bugs are some of my favourite things. I love their colours and interesting shapes- which was a perfect thing to focus on for an Art and Science camp!
We started off with a bug hunt around the house (plastic bugs, of course), and then some directed drawing. I modelled some drawing on chart paper and the big kids followed.
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| This was one of the kids' works of art! |
I brought out a mural I made for my classroom. It's the size of flat bedsheet. Well, actually, it IS a flat bedsheet.
Betcha can't find them!!
These were done with a black and brown Smelly Felt and a coffee filter. Make a line about 5 cm from the bottom, and put it in a shallow dish of water (2 cm deep). The black line should not be submersed in the water. As the water is absorbed by the coffee filter, it travels up the filter and starts to separate the black/brown into all the colours that were used to get that pigment. Apparently black is an expensive colour to make, so they use every other colour to make it! Different colour pigment molecules are different sizes and travel different distances - the science of it is called chromatography. And ta-da! A cool art and science project.
The bug connection? If you cut them apart and add some pipe cleaners, they become butterflies.
The younger ones were working on their own bugs with teacher Makena!
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| Paint one side of the paper and then fold and press- instant symmetry. |
Next we attempted paper mache. We used lots of things from the recycling bins to form the shapes and then covered them in masking tape.
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| THANK GOD FOR ALL THE HELP I HAD FROM MY TEACHER FRIENDS! |
Then began the messy part...
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| Our completed sculptures, drying and waiting for paint and details. |
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