Art Activities

[John Beaulieu]

My husband just introduced me to this site, and so I thought I would post some art activities that I have used in my classroom. I had my students make mobiles with paper butterflies which they designed (intermediate level students but this could also work for junior students). With the older students, I used 3 bamboo skewers and various lengths of thread for the "balanced" part. For younger students, a coat hanger works well.

Another art activity I did, was a fan. Each student had to make two different butterfly pictures on 8 1/2 x 11 white paper. This pcitures were then folded 4 times, and cut on the fold line (make sure to number your slices). These slices were then put glued, alternately on a long sheet of construction paper that also had been folded.

The students had some difficulty with the fine motor, but in the end the results were fabulous.

Brenda

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[Jim]

Thanks for the input Brenda - we'd love to see the final results or some other examples so if you can post some images (or a link to some images) that would be great!

[Keith Petrosky]

Thats seems like fun. When I was really young we used to make a mobile of a butterfly life cycle, and used to hang it by an open window and watch it spin like a fan. I always thought the butterfly was real because it moved, but it was only paper.