Our Kindergarten Team always does a great job introducing the class to the life and work of Eric Carle. This year, Eric Carle also came alive in the Library and in the Art Room. To kick off this amazing collaboration, our incredible Librarian constructed a life size Hermit Crab costume to wear while introducing Eric Carle's, A House for Hermit Crab. After enjoying the story, students were invited to create their own house for hermit crab by painting large pasta shells with tempera paint. Check out Ms. Todd's blog for a great recap of our collaboration from start to finish! Here's the link: http://lessordinarylibrarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/feeling-little-hermit-crabby-part-2.html
On the class' next visit to the Studio, I demonstrated how to use modeling clay to create a crab for their new shells. (Note: the pasta shells were very fragile especially those that had been covered with a generous coat of paint. Next time, I will seal the shells with modge podge before handling). Artists had fun sculpting legs and claws, and carefully molded the clay to the inside of the pasta shell. Finally, googly eyes were added to bring their creatures to life.
Inspired by Carle's style, the class then painted tissue paper with everything we could find! We also painted a piece of tagboard to serve as the background for our sea life scene. These pieces of tagboard will be cut and folded into open boxes that will be covered with coral, sea weed, and other sea life shapes from our tissue paper.
Kindergarten "Carle's" in action!
We created the background first, and then glued the pre-cut flaps together to make a diorama. We added some dried flower petals on the sea floor as shells, rocks, etc. The hermit crabs were introduced to their incredible new sea homes, and put on display for all to enjoy. They are heading over to our local Tully's next week for the Kindergarten Artists' first community show of the year!
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