As our kindergarten students continue to study the human figure, we have moved on from simply drawing the figure, or constructing the figure using different materials. First we turned one of our drawings into a white outline on black paper and then we added macaroni to it to experiment with a different way of creating a figure drawing. This also helped with student's fine motor skills.
After each student had drawn their figure, I came around with a bottle of glue and outlined it. Then students went to town gluing on those little pasta bits.
After we finished this project, we moved onto making a figure sculpture. Students followed step by step instructions to make a little man (or lady) out of pipe cleaners. They did pretty well attaching and twisting the pieces. This took them the whole class however, and when they were done we marked the sculpture with tape and their name since they all looked alike.
During the second class, the kids covered the pipe cleaner 'armature' with tin foil to make their sculpture look like metal. We talked about wrapping and then crunching together the tin foil to make sure it stayed in place. Again this helped with developing our student's fine motor skills.
After the students were finished, we affixed their sculptures to a piece of colored construction paper. I think they turned out fun and whimsical!
