7.3.12

Papier Mâché Birds-well worth it!

Golden Eagle and Woodpecker

This is it.....the best project with my Grade 3s by far. The kids completely fell in love with these papier mâché birds (that they got to know quite well over the 4 weeks we spent on them!).

First, thank you many times over to Julie at Art for Small Hands who created and posted this lesson. The project was quite involved, but she broke it down into easy, manageable steps.


My Grade 3 theme is Canadian art and artists, so I had each student choose to represent one bird that lives in Canada. I had them search through bird books to find one, and then they had to sketch a picture of it in their sketchbooks, colour it with pencil crayons, and make sure to label the type of bird it was as well.  Students went back to their sketches several times; when forming the bird's body shape, and when choosing paint colours.
Crow and Robin
Belted Kingfisher, Woodpecker, and Crow
Swallow

Several classes later, after building the body, layering with papier mâché, adding wire legs and a beak, acrylic painting, and varnishing (non-toxic), the birds were done! A long project, but well worth the time and effort.

7 comments:

  1. I love these! I want one! hahah

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    1. I should try and make you an owl one. :)

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  2. Love your blog! I nominated you for a Liebster Blog Award! http://splatsscrapsandglueblobs.blogspot.com/

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  3. Wow-Thanks so much, Theresa. I really appreciate it!

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  4. What a neat idea! I'm sure the kids learned a lot, and the final project is really cute too :).

    ~Jessica (missyoungsartroom.blogspot.com)

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  5. These are so sweet!!!! And bravo for doing papier mache with Grade 3's!

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    1. Thanks! Haha...it was messy, that's for sure. :)

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