Loren: Week 3 (re-post)

Intro activity: Making sketchbooks and name signs

Materials: light colored construction paper (8.5 x 11), drawing paper (8.5 x 11), crayons, markers, colored pencils

Eco-bots, warriors for a greener future--
create a story of a robot in your sketchbook, then use recycled materials to bring it to life

Materials: cardboard boxes, cereal boxes, cardboard tubes, milk cartons, juice jugs, plastic caps, bottle caps, newspaper, packing supplies, yogurt lids and cups, foil, anything!, elmers glue, hot glue & gun

Mixed Media Abstract paintings--
use recycled materials as tools for creating unique effects with paint--go wild!

Materials: anything with unique or interesting holes or textures, scraps of plastic or paper to cut stencils from, toothbrushes, kitchen utensils/cutlery, yarn, paint rollers, watercolors, tempera paint, brushes, sand, scissors

Sock puppets—
decorate and name a sock puppet character of your own

Materials: white tube socks, yarn, colored fabric scraps, pompoms, sequins, googly-eyes, stuffing, white cotton "tags", sharpie, markers, glue gun

Weaving--
create cardboard looms, create warp with yarn, weave with all sorts of materials

Materials: 2 sticks per child, cardboard boxes, scissors, yarn, fabric scraps, newspapers, magazines, plastic bags, 6-pack rings, shredded paper, plastic "ribbon"

Handmade Paper—
create beautiful handmade paper from scraps

Materials: scrap paper, basin, screens, sponges, blender, bowls, sequins, leaves, flower petals, confetti

?collaborative project idea: Rube Goldberg machine
-each teacher assembles a section so we know in advance it will work. the kids then each decorate a piece of the "machine", and then we bring all the groups together to set up the machine and video tape the results. kids could each get a burned cd of the machine going.

Materials: scraps (carefully selected to create a working machine), paint