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Re:[teacherartexchange] [teacherartexchange]egg cartons and TP tubes

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From: Marvin Bartel (marvinpb_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Fri Jan 27 2006 - 05:07:28 PST

Marcia,

Could egg cartons be used as tempera paint pallets? They have plenty of cups to mix colors? I find that requiring the use of self-mixed colors (no straight paint-jar colors allowed) produces much better paintings, because students are more observant, thoughtful, and expressive when they make the colors themselves. As a general principle, anything that increases choice-making helps overcome apathy and develop the mind's abilities. Closing the egg cartoon lids might keep the paint from drying out as fast so the remaining paints could be kept from day to day. At the end of the lesson, toss them. No water and time is used washing out the pallets.

If I had 100s of TP tubes, I might ask students to combine them with white glue into architectural structures (using tape to hold them until the glue dries. I'd probably divide the class into teams of about 5 per team (making each team as diverse as possible in terms of ability and motivation) I would ask each team to design and build a scale model for a unique building. The design would include some modules that they invent and pre-fabricate from the TP tubes. Other paper could be rolled to create longer tubes of different sizes and lengths. Paper sheets could also fill in spaces between structural members and cover some surfaces.

After they have designed, invented, and and built their scale model buildings, they would study the paper architecture of Shigeru Ban. The discussion would move on to assess various architectural materials used in the school building, their homes, and why they are used. They would discuss how the choice of materials changes the design, which materials are honest, which are fake, and so on.

http://courses.arch.hku.hk/precedent/2001/PaperChurch/
http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/paperchurch/index.htm

Marvin Bartel
Dr. Marvin Bartel, Ed.D., Professor of Art Emeritus
Goshen College, 1700 South Main, Goshen IN 46526
studio phone: 574-533-0171??
http://www.bartelart.com
http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/art-ed-links.html
"You can't never know how to do it before you never did it before." ... a kindergarten boy working with clay for the first time.

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>On my "donations" list at the beginning of the year I
>included toilet paper tubes and egg cartons. Holy
>cow, I have SO many toilet paper tubes and egg cartons
>now. I originally included it on the list because I
>thought we could use them, but now we have sooooooo
>many. Does anyone have any good art projects for
>grades K-4 using those materials? I saw earlier the
>idea of cutting rings from the tp tubes and gluing
>them together to create an ornament. I think they
>would be nice as a sculpture too. Some could be
>spirals or swirls, or like little bridges. I tried
>this and spray painted it gold and it looked great.
>Any other ideas?? Marcia in WI 

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