As a child I really loved Alexander Calder's sculptures. Whimsical and colorful, they let me see that art can be fun too! Today I'm sharing a really simple paper sculpture project inspired by Calder's large scale metal ones. They take only minutes to whip up and certainly would also make for fun scissor practice with younger kids as well! Kids Calder-Inspired Art Sculptures This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support! In case you're looking for some great art books to go along with this activity, here are... Our current 20+ favorite art books: Colorful Dreamer Lester Fizz Bubble Gum Artist The Iridescence of Birds Modern Art Adventures Mix it Up Press Here Any Ed Emberley Book The Day the Crayons Quit Beautiful Oops Dog's Colorful Day Too Much Glue Harold and the Purple Crayon Day with No Crayons Artist to Artist Artist Ted The House Baba Built A Blue Butterfly: A Story of Claude Monet Sandy's Circus A is for Art The Artful Parent This Bridge Will Not Be Grey Art Workshops for Children I shot a video generally showing how to make one of these sculptures. Calder-Inspired Paper Sculptures from Pink Stripey Socks on Vimeo. But in case you like to read directions, here they are! 1. Cut out a rectangular piece of paper. I used construction paper, which stood up fine at home, but fell down with any bit of wind. If you want to make these sturdier, use cardstock (Optional: Decorate it with markers!) 2. Fold it in half. 3. Make cuts like pictured. Cut lines and curves until they almost reach the fold. 4. Optional, decorate with groovy circle stickerrs. 5. Open it up and fold the strips to the front or back in an alternating fashion. (This will help the sculpture to balance.) So on the left side you would fold the strips (starting from the top) front, back, front, back, and front. And on the right side you would fold the strips (starting from the top) back, front, back, front, and back. Once you get the basic design down, you can play around with your cutting ... like I did below! It's really neat seeing all of these guys standing up! They're kinda addictive to make... and I hope you try making them with your kids too! If you liked this paper art project, you'll like these other ideas as well! Easy Matisse Murals 3d Twisty Snakes Woven Paper Banner Jasper Johns Wall Art Slinky Paper Garland Paper Net Garland Kirigami Flowers Kirigami Stars Let's keep in Contact! You can always find fun ideas on my Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter accounts! (Or subscribe to my email mailing list by filling out the pink bar at the top of your screen.) Happy making, friends!

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These lovely paper masks were made by my second graders. The students learned different paper manipulation techniques including controlled tearing, punching paper with Fiskars squeeze punchers, cutting with paper edgers , crimping paper with a paper crimper, making forms, cutting spirals, folding zigzags and more. I created a poster with paper manipulation techniques using ideas that I had seen on other sculpture posters, like this one. I should have made a poster like this years ago. I have referred students … Read more... →

Kids make the coolest sculptures from rolled paper.

These paper roller coasters are SO fun to make. All you need is strips of construction paper. The steps for the little car are below.

This 3D portrait lesson provides a free printable template to allow a quick and easy sculpture construction that's ready for any medium. Paint, print, letter, or collage to add personality and tell a story on your three dimensional portrait.

Science meets art in these amazing Alexander Calder Art Projects for Kids! Play with lines, shapes and colors to make beautiful sculptures and paintings! "To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect." When you think of artists, we think of slightly eccentric souls, wandering along lakes or forests with their art materials, trying to capture that elusive sun beam or bloom. The last think you'd expect is an artist who's gone and studied something as practical as mechanical engineering! But that's Alexander Calder, American artist. He's not one to fit into any kind of mould, and his works of art aren't just hung up on a wall or standing on a pedestal - they actually move! Now you see how the engineering part fits in! What you see here is Calder's famous work, the 'Cirque Calder' or Calder Circus. What you don't see here is that all the parts of this circus can move - from the performers to the animals. And that is exactly what makes Calder's work so special and unique. He was also a man of many talents; along with sculpting and painting, he also designed jewelry, rugs, tapestries and sets - he even painted an entire airplane! Alexander, or Sandy, was from a family of artists. His father and grandfather were sculptors and his mother a portrait artist. Young Sandy's first sculpture was a clay elephant, when he was four years old. He started out making jewelry for his sister's dolls and then went on to design jewelry for other well known artists and their families - Joan Miro, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp, Marc Chagall and Peggy Guggenheim. With 22nd July being Calder's birthday, we think it's the perfect time to introduce kids to this amazing artist and his works, with some fun and simple Alexander Calder art projects for kids.

Video Links: Part One: Part Two: The expressive paper sculpture art lesson is a great way to teach sculpture on a budget. This lesson is done completely with paper, scissors, and glue. (Items tha…

These small, square books “explode” into a series of square and triangular pages when you open them. Each student constructed their own book with decorative papers, cardboard, ribbon, and construct…

This 3D portrait lesson provides a free printable template to allow a quick and easy sculpture construction that's ready for any medium. Paint, print, letter, or collage to add personality and tell a story on your three dimensional portrait.

These small, square books “explode” into a series of square and triangular pages when you open them. Each student constructed their own book with decorative papers, cardboard, ribbon, and construct…

This term year 9 have been looking into graffiti and lettering. For this lesson the students came to the lesson having developed their own lettering for homework and then in class they drew out eac…

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Recycled cardboard is one of my favourite materials for children’s art activities. I like it because it is readily available and free! Read more...

Full crafty admission: Yesterday I was taking Chuck to the park and saw a lovely clean box in the back of our building. Not sure how this happened, but suddenly I found myself mumbling, "It's mine, my precious, my own" repeatedly until Chuck reminded me that he wanted to go play. Then, of course, I snapped out of my gollum state. But you can bet your sweet Aunt Petunia that when we came back home, I grabbed that box and skedaddled back to our apartment. Why? Well, I wanted to make a Cardboard Cactus Construction Set, of course. Why? (You might ask again.) Well, because cardboard is cool and cacti are cool... which makes this cardboard construction set cool to the uber cool power. DIY Cardboard Cactus Construction Set In all seriousness, I've seen so many lovely cardboard construction sets created by moms on internet and I've wanted to make one for the longest time. Since I love the way cacti look, I thought it would be fun to make mine look like a cactus. (Fortunately for me Chuck also dug the cactus theme because it reminded him of a funny scene from Cars. Bonus car points to the person who can describe what's happening in that scene! Ooof... you can totally tell that I'm a mom.... I know my kids' movies.) Let's make a DIY Cardboard Cactus Construction Set! 1. Cut out your different cacti pieces. (Most of mine are the shape shape. I also made one long piece to act as the base and a couple of smaller white flowers to make the cactus pretty.) Cut slits out to help the pieces attach to each other. 2. Cut out two long rectangular pieces to hold up your cacti. Again, cut slits in them. 3. Cover your work area. 4. Paint both sides of your cardboard pieces. 5. Let the pieces dry overnight. (Optional: Cover the cardboard in Mod Podge to protect your paint. I didn't do this, but if your kid really likes the game then you might want to do that.) 6. Have fun constructing a cactus with your kid. This cactus construction set is fun because you can remove and add the pieces to create a whole different array of cacti. Plus, you have to figure out balancing issues too. You gotta make sure the pieces are added so that the cactus doesn't fall over! And, yes. I do have a cardboard addiction. I've also rescued boxes to create toys like this cardboard mountain bridge and this cardboard bean bag toss. Happy taking cardboard boxes from your building's recycling upcycling!

Materials: - Paper Plates (one for each child) - Black Tempera Paint - Paintbrushes - Brown Tissue Paper - Yellow Construction Paper -...

Materials As much as possible I try to use recyclable materials for construction art lessons. I source these from Recreate or ask the children to bring things in from home. Recyclable materials Bottles Caps Cardboard boxes (cereal/shoeboxes etc.) Wrapping paper Scrap paper Containers (yoghurt pots/egg cartons) Other materials Tin foil Scissors Foam sheets Stickers Crepe paper Pipe

You need: drawing sheet A2 size black strips 1,5 cm wide colored construction paper in red, yellow and blue ruler scissors glue black marker This is a teamwork lesson for two students. Draw squares and rectangles of various sizes on the colored paper. Make sure they are straight: start from a right angle and measure carefully. Cut the squares and rectangles and spread them on the white sheet. Make sure same colors do not touch each other and stick them. Continue with the black strips. Decide by yourself how many strips and where you want them, but there are four requirements: the strips must be sticked straight! (use your ruler) black strips must be sticked around all colored area's use the black strips to create white area's (squares and rectangles) don't use to much glue. Let some strips stay loose so you can put a Haring figure behind it Draw three or more Keith Haring characters on the colored paper. Cut them and paste them on the Mondriaan sheet. Be sure there is no yellow character on a yellow area. Outline the characters with a black marker and draw some 'move stripes' around them.

These small, square books “explode” into a series of square and triangular pages when you open them. Each student constructed their own book with decorative papers, cardboard, ribbon, and construct…

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Paper Sculpture Techniques Poster/Handout and ListThis resource is a great resource to help students see the wide variety of paper techniques that can be used to create dynamic low or no cost sculptures. ...

I usually start the year with kindergartners learning about and using lines. In previous years we have made line paintings and line sculptures with wire and pipecleaners. Another fun project we made was line windsocks by rolling up line paintings and adding tissue paper streamers. We’ve done line drawings (check out what my old blog used to look like before I moved it over to this website.) This year I was reminded by Cassie Stephens of a project I used … Read more... →

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The kindergarten curriculum for this 9 weeks calls for a paper sculpture... which is a perfect time to review lines. The students learned how to make all kinds of lines and glued them to a base. They were so pleased with them, and begged me to let them take them home right then. Of course I let them (I didn't tell them that I didn't have room to store them...hee hee).

Relief sculpture is an art form that is midway between painting and sculpture in the round. It is a process in which the subject stands out...

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Make a cardboard dinosaur craft for your dino loving kids with this super simple cut and slot method of construction! Great for older kids to do alone or to make for little ones to decorate and play with on a rainy day. Cardboard truly is the BEST art material available as far as I am...Read More »

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Two Old Guitarist poster by Pablo Picasso, 1903.  Pablo Picasso is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.

Here's another lesson idea that was done only once two years ago and then never revisited again! In theory, this project is an awesome idea. In reality, it was a huge challenge as a first project (for the 3D foundational kids) and it was a real pain in the patushky (overall) for me since it required me to just about push the project through to the end. In my defense, this was the first project I ever did in my current classroom and I wasn't sure what to expect of the students/class. This project was the one the previous teachers did and because it had always been done, I was being obedient and doing it. That being said? Maybe I did it wrong - I really don't know - but I did it once and then never did it again. The idea of this project was to teach the student to use flat surfaces (planes, if you will) in order to create 3D images. Basically, it's a similar idea as a diorama only it's not enclosed. The materials we used were the following: Foam-core board in white and black for the base of the structure Pebbled mat board for the vertical planes Xacto knives to cut, trim, sculpt the planes so that they could be presented in the vertical stacked presentation as you see above Acrylic paints, markers, pens, etc. - basically mixed media for coloring White glue and (eventually) hot glue to really get the piece to stick into the bases The students who went with the simplest ideas were the most successful. Many came up with seriously elaborate takes on what could be done and almost every single one of those students was discouraged long before the end of the project happened which ultimately resulted in them being less invested and turning out seemingly subpar work. IF (and that's a huge if!) I ever do this again, I will approach it in a much different way and encourage them to employ the use atmospheric perspective so that their pieces look more like flat paintings that have actual depth. [Funny thing to note: I just had to correct a typo where I wrote depth as "death" instead. If that doesn't sum up how I felt about this project I don't know what does! But enough with bashing it already. I mean, like I said, it was bad but I'm sure it was just particularly bad to me.]