Flamingo Sculptures Kindergarten

Here is the lesson I came up with after finding the flamingo poster in my room.  I mentioned it a week ago in my blog about how I get ideas for new projects.

Fabulous Flamingo Sculptures that involved painting, drawing, and assembling a 3 dimensional artwork.  The kinders were so proud of their work!

Here is the lesson steps for any art teacher wanting to try this.

1) We drew a flamingo step by step on thin cardboard (saved for me by the custodian). The size was about 9 " x 12".  We drew the body in one corner, the head in the opposite upper corner and connected them with a large letter "S".
2) I gave them white and red tempera and we looked at the flamingo poster. Kids mixed the two colors to create their pink, some made lighter for body and darker for the neck.

3) I gave them a small brush and dot of black paint for end of beak and eye.
4) Next Art period we cut the flamingos out first and talked about what flamingos eat and where they live. (algae, crabs, small fish and where it is warm!)

5) The kids used markers on 6" x 6" tagboard squares to draw two small "friends" for their flamingo... crab, fish or flowers.  
6) While they worked on their two small drawings, I taped a donated plastic stick on the back of each flamingo and this was the leg.

7) Kids cut out the two small friends, and taped with a small piece of tape to a half chenille stick.   

8) Next, I gave each student a golf ball sized piece of salt dough with blue coloring added (recipe on line). This was the base of their sculpture.

9) As we talked about sculpture the kinders worked to assemble all the pieces by pushing them into the dough.



The salt dough takes a few days to dry so the flamingos needed to be leaned against a wall to keep them straight as the dough dried. Any loose sticks were glued into the dough with hot glue after the dough had begun to harden.

So completely adorable and a great lesson in paint mixing and assembling 3D pieces!