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Students help make a classroom Thanksgiving decoration using fine motor skills--cutting & rolling--to create paper curls.
Objectives:
Art; fine motor skills: Students use cutting skills and pencil rolling to create paper curls.
Materials: - Brown posterboard
- Brown construction paper
- Assorted color construction paper
- Glue
- Scotch tape
- child- size scissors
- "primary" (fat) pencils
- colored copy paper
Plan:
Teacher
- Cut a giant "lifesaver" shape from brown posterboard.
- Then, make a large "thumb" shape from brown construction paper to
resemble a turkey head.
- From scrap construction paper, fashion eyes, beak and waddle. Glue to
turkey head.
- Next, glue this head to the inside of the brown "lifesaver" shape (turkey's body).
- Make two turkey feet from orange construction paper and glue to the bottom back side of the "lifesaver" shape so they stick out.
- Finally, on colored copy paper (8.5 x 11), draw strips 1 inch wide across the paper.
- Have many colors available, lined, and ready to cut.
Children
- The child selects a lined sheet of colored copy paper and cuts several strips.
- The teacher then tapes one end of a strip to the table and shows the child how to roll the strip around a pencil, creating a paper curl.
- After removing the paper curl, the teacher transfers the curl (with tape attached) to the turkey wreath and tapes it down.
- Children can continue to make paper curls until the wreath is covered.
Comments:
Colored copy paper is easier to "roll" than construction paper. To speed up the activity, have the strips of paper precut and ready to curl.
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