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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Paper Quilling

Posted by Cindy on May 10, 2012

Classic repost, originally posted Jan. 3, 2008

It was my turn to lead our Keepers At Home group this week and we had so much fun learning the handicraft of paper quilling!

Paper quilling is the art of creating designs from strips of coiled paper. There are quilling tools and quilling papers available, but we simply used materials I had around the house.

How To:

Using my paper cutter, I pre-cut strips of cardstock into 1/4″ wide strips.

I set out the following supplies:

  • Strips of paper
  • Quilling tools: pencils, screwdrivers, toothpicks, chopsticks (any skinny, round objects I could find) Try to offer varied widths for different coiling effects.
  • Glue (with toothpicks for “painting the glue” on the paper to seal the coils)
  • Sheets of cardstock to display the finished designs

The girls coiled the strips into various shapes depending on the designs they were creating. Some coils were tight, some were loose, some were shaped by pinching the coil, and some were only coiled on one end of the strip. Our techniques may not have been “proper”, but we had fun and created very pretty designs.

Aren’t they cute?

Feel free to link your own paper quilling projects in the comments. I can’t wait to see them!

Charles Russell Resources

Posted by Cindy on March 2, 2010

We’ve been so immersed in our 1900′s history studies, that Charles Russell took a bit of a back seat this month.  We did find the time to practice a little horse drawing, though.  Enjoy the resources below!

Charles Russell

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About Charles Russell

Paintings We’re Studying

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Innocent Allies

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Doubtful Handshake

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Drifters

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Round-up on the Musselshell

Lesson Ideas

How to Draw a Horse

Drawing Horses

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Paul Gauguin Resources

Posted by Cindy on December 4, 2009

Gauguin was an interesting character!  I can’t claim that he’s my favorite artist, but we still enjoyed our time spent with him this month.

Self-Portraits

Below are the resources that have been in the sidebar.  We won’t be doing artist or composer study in December.  I’ll have resources in the sidebar again in January!

Paul Gauguin

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Olga’s Gallery

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Cattle Drinking

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Landscape

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Black Pigs

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Piti Teina

Lesson Ideas

Pet Still Life

Self-Portrait

Various Worksheets and a Bio

Books We’ll Read

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The Thinker and Other Rodin Fun

Posted by Cindy on October 30, 2009

We’ve had a fun month studying Rodin (despite my preference for paintings over sculpture.)  I’ve been rather slow posting our projects, so here are two weeks worth of projects.

After studying The Hand of God and other hand sculptures, we completed 2-dimensional abstract hand drawings.  The kids simply traced their hands and used at least two different mediums to create an abstract design.  I love these!

You can see the Ivory soap sculpting we did as one of the projects during our Presidents unit in this post.  I didn’t get a close-up of the sculptures because they weren’t great, but you can see the small squares of Ivory soap in the two overall project pictures.  They didn’t turn out as quite the masterpieces that I’d hoped, but it was fun anyway!

To end the study, we pulled out some clay and tried a little sculpting.

“Flowers in a Basket”

“The Creek”

Here are the resources that have been in the sidebar this month.  I hope they’re helpful to you!

Francois Auguste-Rene Rodin

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Artchive Gallery

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The Thinker

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Jean de Fiennes, Draped

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Rose Beuret

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The Hand of God

Lesson Ideas

Many Ideas for Drawing and Sculpting Hands

Rousseau Resources

Posted by Cindy on September 29, 2009

We have LOVED our time spent with Rousseau!

Henri Rousseau Artist Study Resources

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Olga’s Gallery

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Landscape with Cattle

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View of Bridge Sevres

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The Football Players

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Monkeys in a Jungle

Lesson Ideas

Princeton Online – Several Ideas

KinderArt – Fantasy Jungle

Lesson Plan Page – Stained Glass

Books We Read

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