Reuse Cardboard : Mobile, SeaShells

This is a great summer artproject ! reUse!  REpost !!
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This summer project, cardboard mobile "shells" was hanged on the outside swing.

First they created the cardboard collage; on a pre cut recycled cardboard they glued squared shape precut cardcoard. After covering one side of the cardboard they turned the cardboard over and glued shapes on the reverse side. This step was repeated at least twice, and then put aside to dry.

 

 

 

The second object on the mobile is made from wavy cardboard. The shape was stapled to create a 3 dimension shape looking like a shell. The wavy side (outer side) is painted with gauche. For the inner side, I added glue to the paint and with a spoon color sand was poured on the object.

 

Only Blue &White

 

Blue and White

 all around to celebrate Israel Independent Day

plasticine line design on clear sheet , tracing line drawings

on cardboard painted blue.

 border design with white pastel

autistic adults art project

 

special education 2nd grade

* REUSE prepainted acrilic paint on magazine pages, great base to draw with pastels

special education 2nd grade

 

 

autistic adults art project

REuse Plastic Bottle, SPRING

 this is a eco artproject we did in spring (passover) camp with 130 kids, 1st + 2nd grade

step 1- draw on transparent paper (clear sandwich paper) with pastels, the kids coped and colored Spring images of a bug, butterfly and flower.















step 2- on reused telephone book page they glued stripes of precut magazine pages.











step3- brush bottle with glue and press color reused  magazine stripes around the bottle.















step4- put glue on transparent drawing(side of pastels drawing) and wrap around the color magazine stripes layer.

great job! happy holiday!

Picasso- recycle postcard

 

Using a Picasso  postcard booklet that was fallng apart .

They choose the postcard they liked.

I helped them match colors to work with.

16 years girl 

2nd grade

above N, 10 years old  loves horses. I was pleased to find this Picasso postcard and N did this lovely artwork. 

above E, 7 Year PDD student,  she is very enthusiastic

 

Collage - more Personal Map

am adding More personal Maps

This time done by my 2nd grade special ed. student.

This timeI gave out precut stripes to form roads on to their personal map he created a house on his map.

Collage - Personal Map

 

Spring a perfect time to hike around and see nature,  with reuse maps my disable teen students made their personal map.

 This artproject is based on my first post in this blog!! Jul 25,2009

http://veryspecialart.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post.html

posted again

http://veryspecialart.blogspot.com/2011/02/personal-map-collage.html 

This time the drew the line with color pencils, added paint on top of the pastels and the plasticine detail.

Carboard Box Structures

Following the book by Leah Goldberg, a story about neigbors in an apartment building

we made those building structures  from supermarket boxes.

Autumn Leaves and Colors

using the cardboard stancil of the circle we made this coloful Autumn Leave collage.
I photocopy a leaf I collected in the garden.

In class they drew the circle using the stancil.

Glue the photocopy leave inside the circle.


Glue cutout shape leaves cut from colorfull pages of old magazine around the circle they drew.

Paint everything in the collors of the falling leaves orange and red . 

you can see another autumn leave project done with autistic adults

Squill Plant sign of the Fall Season

The first sign of the Fall season is the sqill plant (chazav).
A tall plant that stands so high almost reaching the sky, that made me think of creating a blue background as the sky and creating a standing format.
I had this cardboard from wine bottle packaging.
They mixed blue and white for the sky, I intended that white clouds would be formed.

While the paint dried they formed small shape balls from riped white paper. 
They drew a line for the stem on all 3 parts of cardbourd and glued the white flowers to form the squill plant.

...let it dry and fold the cardboard to three.

see "mix media, squill flower" for another artproject of the squill plant .

 

 

Circle Stancil, Wheels

 

Teaching "Shapes" is my objective this year working in a special education school.

I love to work with stancils, all students are able to creat the shape.  
See artproject done with different stencials, leaves, hearts, fish shapes.
 this WHEELS was done with a group of 2nd grader.

After the circles they glued precut stripes of reused wrapping paper.





I made the circle stancils from used cardboard box  a few years ago of a  special event art project "Bicycle".

UPCYCLE and Terracycle school programs

http://www.upcycling.co.uk/about/ "Upcycling is something we can do to help the planet become more sustainable by reusing unwanted items by turning them into new products.  This in turn means we can reduce the use of raw materials and the energy used in the manufacturing of raw materials."

 This is another of my recycle/upcycle wall pod made from nylon bag

One night watching TV  I learned about the New Jersey firm " TerraCycle"  making quality consumer products from waste. 

"... repurposes waste packaging from Mars Inc,Kraft, Frito Lay, Wrigley's and many others operations into products ranging from cell phone holders and laptop sleeves to messenger bags, significantly reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills"

https://www.facebook.com/TerraCycle#!/TerraCycle?sk=info

Check their recycle school  program http://www.terracycle.net/back-to-school-bonus-points