Art Folio

Aliens and Planets

This activity needs to be done over a series of 3 or 4 lessons. One lesson to make the paper, one lesson to create the alien and one or two lessons to put everything together. It is messy so requires an art smock and students need to be told that the food dye will stain their hands until they wash them a few times so be careful not to get it on your skin.

Materials

Food dye (ready made or powder which has water added to it)

3 pieces of A4 paper

Icing sugar and water solution

Salt

Paint brushes

2 pieces of A3 white and one A3 black paper

Star and circle cutters

Coloured pencils/textas

HB pencil

Procedure

-Before any dye is put on make sure the students name is on the back of each A4 piece of paper

-Take one piece of A4 paper. Scrunch it up into a ball repeatedly until the paper starts to become soft but try not to rip it. Then paint it with the food dye (one or multiple colours). Leave to dry

-Paint the second piece of A4 paper with one or multiple colours of food dye. While it it still wet sprinkle salt over the paper. Leave to dry then scape the salt off. The salt soaks up part of the dye leaving a pattern on the paper.

-Paint the third piece of paper with the icing sugar solution. Then use the paint brush to add drops of dye to the paper. Tilt the paper to let the dye run on the page. Leave to dry.

-Fold one piece of A3 paper into quarters. in each quarter ask students to create their own alien. It may have lots of arms, lots of eyes or antennas. Provide some sample pictures of aliens for students to get ideas from. Draw the aliens in pencil then outline in black texta and colour in in either texta or pencil

-Once students have drawn their 4 aliens ask them to choose their favourite and draw it up on the an A4 piece of paper trying to take up most of the space. Once completed cut out.

-Using the 3 pieces of died paper cut out some planets. These will be stuck onto the black A3 paper A semi circle can be cut out to use at the bottom of the page. This is the planet that the alien will stand on. Circle for planets in the background can either be drawn onto the paper and cut out or cut out using a round cutter. Stars can also be cut out using the cutter.

- Once planets, stars and the alien is cut out they can be arranged on the A3 black paper and stuck on.