KS3 Art project: Year 8 or 7 drawing and making insects out of different paper craft techniques

The powerpoint first of all gives you some techniques to use with paper and students to make a sample board of the techniques.

Homework task: Zentangle …see powerpoint example

Students then go on to draw out an insect and there are symmetry templates for you to use to develop insects.

There are also lots of different resources and pictures of insects to use.

Further task is then to build the paper craft techniques on the pen drawing and to make your relief paper insect. There are examples of different paper techniques and samples to develop.

**Learning Objectives **
Using the topic given insects/birds the aim is to develop their paper art skills and to begin to make an insect. Also, to use skill of symmetry and practise drawing skills and to build a 2D relief insect using paper creatively.
• To learn how to do various paper art techniques and develop ability to manipulate paper.
• To explore a number of different paper craft activities, there are slide examples of techniques.
coiling paper
folding paper
spiraling paper
layering paper
scoring paper
embossing paper
twisting paper
rolling paper
curling paper.

• To EXPLAIN HOW TO carefully draw out insects using the symmetry insects as a guideline.
• To cut out the shapes of insect drawing carefully
• To explore paper techniques.

**Resources **
Large square of re-cycled paper to paste the paper sample techniques on
Glue – pritt stick and pots of glue
Pencils, Scissors
Magazine paper to use to make insects, Pens to draw with
Tracing paper to help with symmetry drawing

**ACTIVITY OBJECTIVES **
To make a sample board of different effects one can achieve when using paper as an art form.
To develop a range of skills to use when working with paper artists and craftsman
To learn to coil, scratch, spiral, fold, bend, cut and lift, twist, emboss, layer, cut, roll and manipulate paper
To learn about different paper artists and craftsmen who work with paper as an art form.
To learn to use paper and to craft various shapes and folds
To learn to build a paper insect using the paper craft techniques, that is, to fold, score, layer, cut, emboss and coil a paper insect
To do homework task: Zentangle insect.
Examples of artists on the Powerpoint to help you to build a 3D paper sculpture with techniques
Also various templates to help you to draw an insect - especially to develop your ability to use symmetry.