The first project my sculpture class completed was an altered book project. I should students a bunch of examples of altered books that have been cut, folded, painted, drawn on, etc. They received a project sheet with the basic guidelines and the rubric. Currently my elective has 16 students in it!!! I'm trying to keep the Common Core stuff to a minimum (gasp!) so that I can keep my enrollment up. After all, this is an elective class that students are choosing to take instead of a study hall...I've got to give them props somehow!
Here is the project page and rubric students received:
And here are the finished products! A few students struggled with this...particularly the ones who added the class two weeks into school and then tried to rush to get caught up. I'm hoping they will redeem themselves on the next project we've started...paper mache taxidermy! I'll share progress photos soon!
Some students wanted to paint their sculptures. I brought out spray bottles and liquid watercolor paint for them to spray.
This student meticulously cut out the piano from her pages using a template and then painted it with acrylic.
More watercolor...
This person used some copper foil to add to his book. Unfortunately, he went a little overboard with the origami bird. Originally it was done in paper and was colored purple with marker...it looked much better then.
I used to do altered books with my 6th graders (I posted them on my blog a while bag, and did a workshop state nysata) and it was SO much fun! Your students came up with some terrific ideas - I particularly love the piano and the boat, and that Christmas tree looks incredibly ambitious! Kudos to you and your students!
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