Vocabulary
tinfoil
Materials
Tinfoil
small branches (collected from outside)
3” florist foam or other foam, marker
Extension Activities for Teachers
- Create a forest installation in the classroom with all of the trees made by your students.
- Ask students to brainstorm other ideas for sculptures they would like to make with tinfoil. Set out tinfoil in a center to see what they come up with!
- Decorate the foam on which the trees stand. Add “grass” (torn green construction paper). If plastic animals are in the classroom, add them to the sculptures. Invite students to look at their sculptures as changing objects instead of finished works of art.
Extension Activities for Families
- Notice public art in your neighborhood. Take a walk around the school’s campus. Is there public art to see? (Sometimes it is inside; sometimes it is outside. Sometimes it is a sculpture; sometimes a painting.)
- Visit the NCMA Museum Park.
- Visit downtown Raleigh and see the sculpture of Sir Walter Raleigh. Talk about why it is there.
Suggested Books for the Classroom Library
Luxbacher, Irene. 1 2 3 I Can Sculpt! Kids Can Press, 2007. [ISBN 973-1-55453-038-0]
Raczka, Bob. 3-D ABC: A Sculptural Alphabet. Millbrook, 2007. [ISBN 978-0-7613-9456-3]
Thomas, Isabel. Sculpting. Heinemann Library, 2005. [ISBN 978-1-40346-921-2]
Thomas, Isabel. Sculptures. Heinemann Library, 2012. [ISBN 978-1-43295-017-0]
Wallace, Nancy Elizabeth., and Linda K. Friedlander. Look! Look! Look! At Sculpture. Marshall Cavendish, 2012. [ISBN 978-0-7614-6132-6]