Ok Ok so here is the third piece of art created from local communities: Cornelius!!!
So way back when there use to be this bad to the bone tree in the middle of Cornelius. This was the meeting place of town-folks to get the daily gossip and info on the goings on around town. The tree of knowledge was chopped down... and guess what was put there instead??? A gas station. Oh gee how nice...
For this project, we create a tree of knowledge paper mosaic. We look at many different examples of mosaics. To mix things up a bit, I let them come to the board and write up different materials mosaics are made from.
I tell the kids they have to imagine what they thought the tree of knowledge would have looked like. I did a demo on how to draw a non broccoli tree. I also showed the kids the size of the paper chips we were going to use. They need to make sure they draw big enough so the paper pieces will fit into the branches. They have the choice of season and background for this mosaic.
The kids first sketched the trees and then went right into mosaicing.
I think 3rd grade is a good year to attack the paper mosaic. It takes some time, but they have enough fine motor skills to use smallish pieces of paper, but it's still a bit challenging for them... The mosaics are just so charming though!!
*** Make sure to demo the gluing process... AND remind them often!! I looked up a few time and there was glue explosions!!
Here are the mosaics...
Artwork at the top of the post:
Unknown Artist, Mosaic Alter, Church of the Loaves and Fishes in Tabgha, 685 AD
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