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RSSTuesday, December 28, 2010
Holiday Break
Enjoying holiday break and using time to catch up. Looking to what I will be teaching in the new year and wrapping up lessons, grading and uploading to Artsonia. Boy, it is nice to have a little breather.
I had fun making recycled magazine ornaments with my 4th and 5th graders - not too many finished but it did put a little spark in them and show them what is possible from an old magazine. One student used the coils she made and added a yarn pom pom and added it to a gift ~ great idea!
I purchased the bird and sun from a fair trade booth at my school's Holiday Fundraiser. Then I made a handout of different shapes for students to follow. We used 1 inch magazine strips and folded them in half once then in half again. Pay attention to the color on the strip when folding to get the colors you want. Then I rolled that into a coil and glued the end with glue stick. Keep adding more strips to the coil until it is the right size for your design. Use a folded strip to create the outline shape when the coils are finished. When gluing the coils into the shape it is better to use liquid glue. I finished mine with a few coats of mod podge - to keep the coils from falling out in the middle and to give it some shine.
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| my finished birdie |
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| a strip before coiling and coils of different sizes. |
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the box top with my in progress work and strips and templates for the kids.    |
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Great stuff, glad to have found you!
This is basically the same idea as "quilling", and there is a ton of info on the net about designs to do with it. Though quilling uses small strip of paper, I think the designs could be easily adapted. I just ordered myself a kit from klutz books. Thanks for this adaptation of the idea! I will definitely use it in my class this new year. Hoping to get some new posts up on my blog sometime too!
This was so fun to read! In Oct. I saw a similar ornament in a magazine and decided that my students would make some to sell at our holiday program- to help raise $ for art supplies. WISH I'd seen your post back then! Let's just say that using 1" strips is much more brilliant than my idea! And we ended making wrapping paper b/c the ornaments were taking forever to make.
I've been saving my pics to post later & can't wait to post them and direct folks to your instructions for BETTER results:) thanks!!!
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