Name sculpture art lesson

I love starting the school year with a name art lesson. It helps learn kids’ names and kick start the creativity for the year. Here’s some of my favorite name art lessons that also incorporate a variety of artistic skills, art history and self expression.

These are pretty self-explanatory. Students, who had practiced expressive lettering styles in a previous lesson, wrote their name on a long piece of paper. They filled their letters with color and pattern and cut each letter out then flipped the letters over to decorate the other side. The criteria was to create a sculpture of at least 8 letters, so some students wrote their names 2 times. Others got creative and added symbols to meet the 8 character criteria. They were required to use the…

Having an hour and a half (give or take) makes it SO much better to get in depth with our projects! Yesterday half were working one project and the other half worked on their name sculptures! And I…

Taylor Newman on Instagram: "Symmetry sculptures in 2nd grade! This lesson is loaded with problem solving and engagement, and the kids are always so excited to take their kinetic sculpture home after this one day lesson. Students learn to manipulate the paper in multiple ways like folding, bending, curling and fringing. They are challenged to create bilateral symmetry using their paper strips that I have pre-assembled in rainbow order and stapled in the middle. #elementaryart #arteducation…

Watch this video for some techniques on how to create a cardboard sculpture. In particular, observe how the SLOT technique (01:52 onwards) is used.

@Rana Rankin Rankin Rankin ita Robinett maybe you could do this with the words 3D Art for our 3D art shelf???

This is the first lesson in a series of lessons where students will use the letters of their names to create 3-d sculptures.

The first project for grade 7 is now complete. The students have done a brilliant job creating these difficult pieces. Not only did they have to design, plan, cut, arrange, rearrange, and assemble …

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3D Name Sculpture The first project I had my students do was a 3D name sculpture. This was the inspiration for the project (scro...