4.- CRAFTS WITH PAPER

Crafts with paper can be Accessible, Educational and Safe. There are Inexpensive and original craft projects using paper and other supplies for kids. Children start out doing a bit of paper folding and origami and then they start cutting a bit....and have fun creating…

Objectives:

·         To enjoy the creative process of doing things.

·         To develop a critical capacity for appreciation personal and others work.

·         To appreciate their contribution in a collaborative project.

·         To have confidence in one’s own artistic production.

Activities:

·         Origami, Origami is the Japanese name for the art of paper folding. They can follow instructions to build things, they can share their knowledge of it or they can follow the steps through a page from internet. They must be taught the 2 basic ways of folding paper, the base to start any work.

·         Tessalating, The word "Tessera" in Latin means a small stone cube. They were used to make mosaics in Roman Buildings. Now it is used to refer to pictures or tiles, mostly in form of animals or life forms, which covers the surface in a symmetrical way without overlapping or leaving gaps.

Tessellations must be based on a shape. Parallelograms can be tessellated. Students have to realize that every part needed to make up the full picture is contained in the shape chosen. Moreover, they can see and appreciate the work done by artists as Escher and Nakamura.

They can start following a step by step process and then create their own tessellation work.

·         Working with photos, Students will need some images, photos or postcards. These material need to be cut up, using scissors or a craft knife. There are many ways in which the pieces that you cut can be reassembled. Photographs can be cut into squares, straight strips or curves.
Curved strips can be shape into a fan and this technique is very effective with photos of figures in action.

·         Photomontage, It is about exploring the patterns you can make with repeated shapes. Also it can be a cooperative work and make a picture using cutting images. They can see the work of artists like Grete Stern.

·          Collage, It is the way to represent and express through the study and experiment of shape and colour using a range of paper and glue together. It can be a work based  in colours or tonalities or it can be based on shapes.

·          Mosaics, is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of coloured paper, glass, stone, or other materials. It may be a technique of decorative art.

·          Weaving, shapes or letters. Children will investigate patterns from different times and cultures using different materials