Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Eric Carle Collage Very Inspiring Insects

Students will:
·      See examples of illustrations from The Very books, read the Very Quite Cricket aloud.
·      Watch a video clip of Eric Carle making his collage and study his style of art Great Video for seeing how he makes his collage (also youtube has great clips)
·      Create unique textured paper using various painting tools and techniques that will be used in collage
·      Study insect anatomy (3-part segmented body + wings, 6 legs, antenna)
·      Design and assemble textured paper into a fun insect

Materials:

·      Paint
·      Paint brushes, texture tools
·      Water bucket
·      2- 9x12 inch pieces of paper
·      Scissors
·      Glue
·      12x18 dense white paper to mount bug collage on

(Students explore inventing texture)



(One of my Examples, I will post students as they finish)





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