Paper Project

For the project and lesson Evan and I created we had the students create an ocean scene with a fish, based off the story Rainbow Fish. We taught the concept of texture,collage, as well as warm colors and cool colors. First the students took cool colored construction paper and created the background, having the tissue paper poof out some. The tissue paper was attached using Elmer's glue. Once the background was created, the students took a construction paper fish cut out and then took ripped up pieces of construction paper and created a collage.The students were then told they were to make their fish unique like Rainbow Fish was by using sequins, pipe cleaners, pom pom balls, etc. Then they glued the fish down on the tissue paper using an accordian folded sheet of paper to make it pop out.

This was the bulletin board we created displaying everyone's projects!

An extension activity for this would be to have the students write a short paragraph explaining why their fish is unique. This would incorporate writing and language arts into the project as well.