Wild Animals in the 7th Grade!

7th graders just finished their animal collages. They could choose any animal and had to put them into a believable habitat. These turned out really nice!

7th Graders Are Wild!!

I had such a creative class of 7th graders last trimester. They did some really cool things with their collaged animals--I just had to share these fun little guys!

Crazy Collaged Animals!

This trimester, when we began the animal collage project I really tried to stress to the kids using all of their paper (and then some) and trying some interesting paper techniques. I think this is one of the most creative examples I've seen in a while. These kids did a great job!

Animal Collage

The 7th graders recently chose an animal and created a believable environment for them to be in. Then, we made the project out of different papers and such. I liked these so well that all of them are hanging in the building. Here are some pictures of some that I thought turned out very nice! Joey’s snake even moves! Great job kids!

7th Graders are Like Wild Animals!!

These are just a few of the really cool animal collages that the 7th graders just finished. Before we began the project we looked at work by Henri Rousseau for our inspiration.

Animals in Collage!

The 7th graders recently worked on their animal collages. The kids could choose any animal they wanted and collaged them with several different materials. They really turned out very nice! These are a few of my favs!

Oink! Oink! Zoo Pals!

While Blogsurfing, I came across an art teacher that created Zoo Pals out of clay. My first thought was, "That looks too easy"...then we started making ours. While they were difficult to sculpt, they were a great deal of fun to glaze. The kids did a fabulous job on these and we had fun!

Wild Animals

I'm always looking for inspiration....lately my source has been fellow art teach blogs and my son. That's where this project came from! I was struggling to get my students to, "think large", so I used this project as one way to work on that. The kids all chose an animal and put it in an environment that "made sense". We looked at Henri Rouseau for inspiration for this. Then, as they were working I kept encouraging them to make their animals larger and larger until they were almost half the size of their project. I also encourage them to not feel restrained to the paper. The project was a collage with just about everything I had in my cupboards. We even spent some time experimenting with different ways we could manipulate the papers. The results were kinda cool! When I'm done with them, I think the 7th grade teachers are going to use them for a bulletin board themed, "7th Graders Are Like A Wild Animal..." (they will then list reasons they are similar).