Recycled Soda Can Sculptures

Recycled art is working with more soda cans. This time they had to make a sculpture based on a memory and had to incorporate soda cans as a material in any way. The difficulty was getting enough cans. We would have had enough from the recycling bin alone, but another class was also collecting many cans for a separate project. I bought a whole lot of our own tall ice tea cans and soda and told the students to chug it up so they could have some sculpture supplies. I don't think they were too disappointed. Each student brought something completely different to their project which is always fun to witness.

choo! choo!

ba dum ching!

oink oink

musical notes

rainbow feather

Are you picking up those alien transmissions?

The golden toy duck

A hat that only fits if you wear a bun in your hair.

Not quite a peaceful coffin for eternal rest.

Gesture People Sculptures

On this project the intro class learned about gesture drawing and human proportions. We made wire with paper mache sculpture people. I'm always surprised at how different each student makes their art and the ideas they have, which can sometimes be very strange. I got this original lesson idea from student teaching 6th grade art last year. Ninth grade enjoyed this too. They really like getting their hands messy.

All the bodies...

Smurfette 

Zombie!

Did we just become best friends?

The elusive white ninja

Uh... lol, some students' ideas

gotta catch 'em all!

Thank you, thank you very much.

purple chicken pox?

Shiny, puff ball person

Dance Par-tay! Can arms bend like that?

What every girl wants, their very own boyfriend doll.

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