1st graders learned about the art of some of our favorite book illustrators, and combined cutting, painting and gluing skills to make an octopus/giant squid/jellyfish creature. I have done an Eric Carle inspired collage in first grade for many years, and this year I combined it with my new book purchase,
I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry. I found this
super cute octopus collage example at "flipflops and applesauce" blog.
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| Eric Carle's collage technique combined with a funny story by Kevin Sherry - two great illustrators! |
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| We began with cool color wavy lines for our ocean backgrounds. |
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| We selected a patterned paper for the head and made a semicircle, a geometric shape. |
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| We made arms from paper scraps, cutting wiggly, organic shapes. |
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| Hole punchers provided the texture of the tentacles, and we used the holes for the bubbles. |
Love the hole punched texture and bubbles! It makes these quite unique :)
ReplyDeleteI am trying to pin projects that use up lots of scrap papers so I LOVE these!!! Awesome!
ReplyDeleteGreat one Hope! I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to use this with my students... thanks. Anna
ReplyDeleteThese are adorable and I agree, the hole-punched tentacles is such a great idea! And double bonus for using up scrap paper which seems to accumulate and accumulate in the Art room!
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous! We are having a water theme this autumn and I will have to try these cuties. Thanks
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