Rainbow Paper Mosaics Revisited (K)
This time I started reading to my students the book " How pencils save the rainbow" . We talked about the colors we talk about in the rainbow, and about the location of the rainbow in general. The students then designed a piece of textured wallpaper using liquid tempera paint and scrapers.The next day we started talking about what a mosaic is (and saw a lot of hilarious examples), then went back to the rainbow sequence.
Each student was then given a piece of blue construction paper measuring 12 x 15 inches and asked to draw a cloud at each of the two corners, followed by a long red line from one cloud to the top of each. Clouds. Return to paper and other clouds.
I then told my students to go back to the rug and I would show them how to start a rainbow mosaic with colored paper.
First you had to cut the pieces of wallpaper into small pieces. I then dipped the 3/4 inch brush into the jar with clear liquid glue and circled the glue line along the red line I drew. Since it was the first color of the red rainbow, I put next to it pieces of red paper to cover the glue line. I drew another line of glue right under it and put pieces of torn orange paper on it. Y ...Gluing and attaching paper took about half (45 minutes) of class time for most of my kids. On the last day after they finished, I called each table individually to complete the strokes - inflated clouds!
I mixed shaving foam and white liquid school glue to make the clouds look plump. I’d like to tell you the exact recipe ... but I always close my eyes. If you don’t add enough glue, the loose clouds will flatten out and flake off as they dry.
The students used popsicle sticks to scoop up some of the mixture and then hammered clouds into the paper they were drawing. Once they were on your pages, we (and I mean) covered them!
