Two 4th grade classes collaborated on this project. These will also be online lessons, but I've been super busy...so not today....will tag later. For this, one class painted plastic bottles in warm colors and the other in cool colors. The warm color class cut their bottles into a spiky shape and the cool color class cut theirs into spirals. Then I made a chicken wire cylinder as a frame. The necks of the bottles fit perfectly into the chicken wire holes. Then our music teacher's father-in-law made the perfect frame to hang it from (Thanks!). I painted it black and ta-da! I am so proud of this, it is so nice! The kids did a great job. :)
I'm hoping to possibly make one of these either this year or next year...how hard was it for the students to cut the bottles? Did you use the thinner, "cheaper" water bottles? Did they use regular scissors or did you chance it and let them use knives?
ReplyDeletewe used mostly cheap thin bottles which were very easy to cut with normal little scissors. a few of them were soda bottles that were a little harder, but overall the kids thought it was pretty easy. :)
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