Learning Objectives

  • Students will be able to think up their own characters and draw them
  • Students will be able to fold paper in an accordion style
  • Students will be able to create a pop-up background
  • Students will be able to manipulate construction paper and tissue paper to create an environment

    • Materials

    Pipe cleaners, toothpicks, skewers, popsicle sticks (for bone folders), paper clips, buckets (for washing hands), construction paper, drawing paper, oil pastels, glue sticks, elmer’s glue, tissue paper, scissors, tape, visual aids, project sample.

    Vocabulary

    Accordion, symmetry, bone folder, foreground, middle ground, background, score, fold, perspective

    Artists

    Martin Engelbrecht, Su Blackwell, Andrea Dezso, Kristin Carlson

    Lesson

    This lesson introduces students to paper craft and making paper three-dimensional.

    For a warm up activity, have students draw a favorite animal, either real or imaginary, and think of what environment it might live in. Is it warm, is it cold, dry, wet, are there trees, homes, etc.

    Using construction paper and bone folders, studens are shown how to accordian folds. Using two sheets of half-folded accordians, the students create a foreground and a background with pop-up elements that create an environment for characters that they have created on tag board.

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