PERSONAL POLYHEDRONS – Colour, Line, HarmonyStudents design a personal polyhedron using paint and text to express their feelings and personalities. Then they work together to assemble the polyhedrons into a community where everyone has a place and each individual contributes to the whole.
Students design a personal polyhedron using paint and text to express their feelings and personalities. Then they work together to assemble the polyhedrons into a community where everyone has a place and each individual contributes to the whole.
Supplies:
- Crayola Project Paint
- Crayola Watercolours
- Crayola Fine Line Markers
- Crayola Washable Glue
- Crayola Paint Brushes
- Crayola Scissors
- Crayola Modeling Clay
- Bamboo Skewers - 1 per student
- Plastic Container Lids For Palettes - 1 per student
- Paper Towels
- Water Containers
- Magazines
Steps:
1
- Choose the polyhedron net you want to use. (Downloads - OctahedronNetA.pdf, TetrahedronNet.pdf, HexahedronNetA.pdf)
- octahedron
- tetrahedron
- hexahedron - Cut it out.
2
- Paint your net in a style and with colours that express your feelings and personality.
- When the paint is dry glue the net together to create the model.
3
- Choose 3 or 4 words that most describe your personality, for example,
- smart
- responsible
- kind
- funny
- athletic
- artistic
- etc. - Find letters for your words in a magazine.
- Cut out the letters and glue them to the faces of your polyhedron.
- On one face write something that you care about.
- 'I care about . . . ' - Create a design that expresses your feelings and personality.
4
- Insert a bamboo skewer into the polyhedron.
- Roll a small ball of modeling clay for a base.
- Insert the bamboo skewer into the ball of modeling clay.
- Add your polyhedron to a 'class community' of polyhedrons in a way that makes it part of the whole.
Subjects:
Grades:
Grade 4,
Grade 5,
Grade 6,
Grade 7,
Grade 8
