6 - 8 years

Sustainable Creations

Age Group

This activity is suitable for children aged 6 to 8.

Depending on age and developmental stage, modifications can be made to the activity.

Considerations

This activity can be conducted within a classroom setting.

At least one educator will need to be present for this environment.

Discussion

Begin talk about recycling and sustainability and why it’s important for our earth.

Reading or providing books about this topic, such as ‘Don’t Throw that Away!’ by Lara Bergen and/or ‘Michael Recycle’ by Harry Bliss.

Share images from famous artists with similar techniques. Talk about what the children may like/dislike about the artwork.

Then begin to introduce the idea of creating by recycling and encourage children to bring in recyclable materials to use for this activity.

Inspiration

Rodney 'Rodrigo' McCoubrey

Link to ACARA
Students should be learning to and supported to:

·      Learn through making and responding to visual art works

·      Using a range of equipment, materials, media and technologies to make art, craft and 

       design works

·      Develop skills and learn about processes

·      Look at artworks and talk about what they see

Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts 

Objectives

For children to create creatures using the their found and collected materials and those 

available to them

For the children to create an insect or replicate one found in nature

To experiment with different skills and materials

Resources and Materials

Various recycled materials, such as milk bottles, egg cartons, boxes etc.

Coloured paper, pipe cleaners, googly eyes, glitter, glue, scissors and other classroom art

supplies

Paintbrushes of various sizes

Paint 

Activity 

Modifications

You may or may not choose to include classroom materials and instead stick to 

completely recycled objects.

Paint can be removed as a material if this suits the classroom set up and student 

ability

For younger children, help them to put together their bug and encourage them to talk  about what they want it to look like.

Assessment

Questions and comments such as, ‘I like how you did …’ and ‘Can you tell me how you…’ are great ways to discover how children came to the final product and praise their efforts. They should be encouraged to converse like this with their peers.

This learning experience can be assessed using the rubric found in the lesson plan.

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