wire sculpture elementary art

A blog about being an art teacher and all the art projects we do in class.

Project Description: Students will be creating 3D Sculptures using wire as the primary medium. In order to made the sculpture look like the subject, students will need to follow the Contour/Cross...

The fifth graders had been learning about figures and gesture. Our first project was inspired by the playful figurative art of Keith Haring...

An ode to Alexander Calder, these sculptures are so colorful and fun!

Kids study the work of Alexander Calder, famed american artist and sculptor, then make wire faces with coat hangers.

Today there are many artist that use interesting kinds of materials to make fine art. Wires are one of them. Wires are very easy to manage and they can

A few years back I read an online article about a British artist named Lucy Sparrow. She had created a temporary Cornershop in London, stocked completely with felt re-creations of everything you would find inside. It was like a cross between a pop-up shop and art installation, and there were over 4,000 items for sale. At the time she hinted at a project in New York and I was thrilled, hoping I would hear about it when the time came. I did. Inside the ice cream freezer, with glitter frost on…

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…

Check out student artwork posted to Artsonia from the Calder inspired Wire Portraits project gallery at Howard C Johnson Elementary School.