Tania Radda - I Wish I Were A Firefly on the Wall
Curriculum Connections: Fine Arts K-4: A.1.1, A.1.3, A.2.1, A.2.2, A.3.1, A.3.2; 5-8:A.1.10, A.1.11, A.1.12, A.1.18, A.2.11, A.2.15, A. 3.10, A.3.12; 9-12: A.1.21, A.1.24,A.2.18, A.2.19, A.2.21, A.3.19, A.3.21
Lesson Objective: students will understand that anything can be a material for creating art; students will create their own sculpture from found objects.
Have students bring in the following materials from around their house:
Cardboard - old cereal boxes, toilet paper inner tubes, etc
Pipe cleaners or wire
Dowels
Buttons
You will also need:
Glue or hot glue
Many artists today work with materials that were manufactured for another purpose.
These kinds of materials are called "found objects".
(Visit http://www.judyonofrio.com/main.htm for the work of Judy Onofrio, a prolific found object artist.) These materials are not only readily available; they push an artist's creativity to see the objects in a new way and to utilize them in an original fashion. Using cardboard and found objects have your students construct an artistic bug.
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