sculpture

Sugar Cube Sculpture

We made sugar cube sculptures. What a fun and surprising lesson in building, painting, and dissolving! Materials Box of sugar cubes Glue bottle Sturdy base to glue onto Paint in squeezy bottles Boxes of sugar cubers were harder to find than I thought, but I ultimately found them at our big supermarket (and bought 2!). [...]

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Gumdrop Sculptures

The provocation: A bowl of gumdrops and a handful of toothpicks. The first question: “Can I eat these?” Oh yeah, I guess they do kind of look like a snack. The second provocation (after we each ate a gumdrop, just to get that elephant out of the room): A square base of four gumdrops, attached [...]

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Colander Sculpture

This surprisingly fun sculptural activity kept my 33 month old engaged for a long while. And the added bonus is that it’s also great for strengthening fine-motor skills, making color choices, and developing spatial understanding by making sense of the exterior and interior of an object. The set up A handful of pipe cleaners and a [...]

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Recycled Sculpture

What you see here is one of the most successful art projects that’s hit our household thus far. And it was free! What was the allure? Working on a large scale A glue gun (the low-heat kind) Piles of imagination-building materials Collecting objects Autonomy with decision-making A novel project. It all began when we unearthed [...]

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