mask making bring out creativity in 3rd, Kindergarten

It is always fun to see what the kids will do when It is always fun to see what the kids will do when we begin a mask project. For the 3rd grade I showed them a couple I had done and gave them supplies and an hour to create their mask. Some got quite tiny, some were very large. Some had a lot of dimension to them, others not so much. Great work on this one.

The kindergarten project was as much manual skills as mask making. they had to color the mask then cut it out, cut out the eyes, thread the pipe  cleaners through holes to make the ties and put the mask on. Quite a few of them then "flew" around the room and became butterflies. Great job.

1st grade Life cycle of the Butterfly

This project let the students do several different techniques to create their life cycle pictures.
We stamped butterfies onto paper for them to color and cut out. They then pasted it onto the plate. We also outlined a leaf for them which they colored and cut out and pasted onto the plate. They then used a green chenille stem to create the Catapillar and put him on the plate and lastly used clay and a stick to create the chrysalis and glued it to the plate. They labeled it all and we pretty proud of their project. This class is always ready to try things so it has been fun to do complicated projects with them.

Life cycle of the butterfly in multimedia

We used ribbon and chenille for the butterfly, clay for the chrysalis and eggs, and a pom and chenille for the catapillar stage and mounted it all on a plate for display. The project was fairly complicated for the 1st grade but doing each item one at a time let everyone complete it and have a pleasing result.