Sculpting a Community

Lesson

What is a community?  

Can you belong to more than one community?  Why or Why Not?

What communities do you belong to?  Think about home, family, school, clubs, and hobbies!

Does a community have to be a physical space or can it be online?

What makes being part of a community good?

How do you give back to your community?

In this project, you will create a paper model of a community.  What parts of your community will you add to your artwork?  Can you think of places around your neighborhood you could add?  Can you invent some new places?  We will fold, curl and bend paper to make a sculpture that shows different parts of a community and ways they connect.

Begin by watching these videos:

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Video 

How many communities can you count in this story?

Last Stop on Market Street

Let's think about how we can use our art materials to make our own model of a community!

1

Collect Materials

Gather a variety of paper and one paper plate.

2

Cut Shapes

Cut paper into shapes representing community structures.

3

Make Shapes

Manipulate paper into imaginative representations. Examples: folding, bending, twisting, cutting, curling.

4

Arrange

Consider the initial layout of community representation by arranging pieces without gluing. Determine what else is needed to complete the artwork.

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