You can't help but learn a little about body proportions and structure when you make your own skeletons from pasta.1. You'll need several different pasta shapes for this project — some straight, some curly, and some round-ish. The more you can find, the better. It also helps to use black posterboard or something really stiff for the backing as the glue can make the art kind of heavy.
2. You can start by briefing the students on body proportions. If nothing else, I like to have them see that people don't have arms that come out of their neck and legs that come out of their pelvis. People have shoulders and hip bones which make arms and legs spread apart, not stick together like in most stick people drawings.
3. Show the students how to start with round-ish shapes to make a head, straight spaghetti to make the arms and spine and legs, and the curly shapes to make a rib cage.
4. Once the pasta has been arranged on heavy paper, lift each item up and glue in place.
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I love this idea. I ussed to make a skeleton out of Q tips with kindergarten, but I like the pasta much better.
Thank you for sharing your ideas! Your blog saved me. I am filling in for our second grad art teacher Friday and feel completely inept! My only instructions were to do a Halloween project. I love this one!
When we made these, I just set the boys loose. Next time, I'd try to put a straight pasta piece at the top of the legs. The skeletons ended up looking like pasta men. I think if the legs were dangling it would have looked a little better. That being said, the kids loved their skeletons and were proud to hang them!
You are an exceptional person! Thank you so much for sharing such wonderful ideas. Art adds so much to life and I love the examples and simple format/explanations you use. you are brilliant... thank you for making the world a better place, one piece of art work at a time!!
I think that this proyect is awesome.
Moreover, learning some body proportions at that early age will give children a special advantage while drawing.
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