Card board animal head sculptures

Sculpture and Surface Area

Students will choose an animal photo to reproduce as a three dimensional sculpture.Materials: cardboard exacto knifes cutting boards hot glue  hot glue guns paint Procedure: Students choose an animal to reproduce as a three-dimensional sculpture. They must have a profile photo and a front facing photo of the animal's head. The process was linked to math concepts involving graphing along an  X and Y axis and employing a visual estimation of surface area.  Students drew a profile of their animal of choice. They then traced and cut it out of cardboard twice which served as  Y axes.  This piece is cut out twice The face was built of many layers of cardboard of increasing and decreasing surface areas to simulate the correct planes. When fitted atop the Y axis profile, these formed the multiple  X axes  required to build the face in the round. Note in the photos below, pieces were traced around shapes in the photo.  Each shows a plane that would indicate the form of the face as if in relief. These shapes then are placed in order along the 2 profile pieces.

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7,8,9,10. This piece is cut out 4 times and becomes the neck.

• Assembling the pieces:


• You will attach the front facing X axis pieces along the Y axis profiles by cutting slits into them as so.

This piece slides onto the neck

The pieces that slide onto this profile must be flush with the top edge.

Kids get really creative.  They paint them with patterns, They create the full animal rather than the mounted bust.  They add fantastical adornments.