Materials
Wooden toothpicks
Styrofoam balls, blocks, and packing peanuts
Styrofoam meat trays cut in pieces
Scraps of construction and wrapping paper
Glue
Scissors
Instructions
1. Peruse books and walk outdoors, drawing the children's attention to the many forms of structures.Show them examples of sculptures, particularly outdoor sculptures in a garden or publicsquare.
2. Show the children how to connect the Styrofoam pieces with toothpicks.
3. Encourage the children to create three-dimensional sculptures and structures.
4. When they are finished, let the children decorate the sculptures with paper scraps, if theychoose.More to doField trip: Visit a sculpture garden or museum.Language: Invite the children to describe their sculpture to the class or in their journal.More art: On neon-colored paper, photocopy textbook pictures of traffic signs with differentshapes and attach the pictures to Styrofoam blocks with toothpicks; construct cars, trucks, andbuses from Styrofoam blocks.
