2D Giant Butterfly

Materials needed:
-Big white drawing paper
-Crayons
-Scissors
-Black construction paper
-Glue

Directions:
1.  Fold the big white drawing paper in half
2.  Draw one half of a butterfly, just one wing, in black crayon...press HARD
3.  Fold the butterfly in half the opposite way
4.  Using a tool (like a wide popsicle stick) press down and rub the stick over the paper...the idea is to transfer the crayon enough to the other side so you can have a mirror image of the design
5.  Trace over the ghost lines with black crayon, pressing equally as hard so it's the same on both sides
6.  Color it in
7.  Glue a butterfly body in the middle

Paper Mache Fish

It's summertime art camp fun!

Directions:

1.  Apply paper mache around a blown up balloon.

2.  Once dry, pop the balloon and cut around where the balloon was tied to make the fish mouth.  

3.  Use paint, tissue paper, glitter, whatever else you have on hand to make some really cool and exotic tropical fish!  

Mona Lisa's Summer Vacation

I love this project so much!  The results are always so fun and whimsical!
I have done it a few times.  You can find another version of the same idea here with a lesson on the Dada Movement in art - http://cinnamonraisintoast.blogspot.com/2010/01/dada-project-with-mona-lisa.html

Here are the results of our latest efforts...

Basically you just need to download a picture of Mona Lisa and then let your imagination run wild!

I asked the kids what they were going to do on the summer break.  Then I told them to pretend you were taking Mona Lisa with you.  Imagine her in that environment.  Mona Lisa visiting the Taj Mahal, Mona Lisa selling ice cream, Mona Lisa at the botanical gardens, on a boat, picking flowers....you get the idea!