Submitted by Mary Jane Hadley
UNIT: Sculpture - Dolls - Paper Maché
Lesson: Bobble Head Dolls
Grade level : Elementary (Mary Jane did these with 4th grade)
Materials:
2 Huggie juice bottles, one cut 1 1/2" down
from the top (prepared
by teacher with an X-acto knife ahead of time), paper towels, Ross art
paste, pipe cleaner, ball of plasticine clay, 1/2 of a 1"
Styrofoam ball, colorific gel markers, permanent markers, yarn, trim, glue gun
Procedure:
1. student will plan design of bobble-head doll on handout. This is
important because the student has to plan the front, back, and side views
because we are working on a 3-D form.
2. Wrap pipe cleaner around under top lip pf whole bottle.
Paper maché bottle (the body). Also paper maché the cut bottle (the head). Have
paper maché go over lip of both bottles. Stick ball of plasticine clay in
the bottom of the whole paper machéd bottle (so it doesn't fall over).
3. Draw in pencil first on inverted cut
paper mached bottle-
front, sides, and back of head using plan from worksheet. Go over lines
with black sharpie.
4. Draw in pencil on whole paper machéd bottle- front, sides, and
back of the body. They should include everything from the neck down to the
shoes. Then black Sharpie.
5. Color in the designs with gel markers or permanent markers.
6. Add hair with yarn using a glue gun. Add other details with trims,
beads and anything you can think of.
Last year some of the students made animals that were hilarious. A
monkey, mouse, horse (we had to add a shape on the front of the horses
head that she paper machéd over)
Resources
As an anticipatory set you could show examples of actual bobble-heads of characters who you think students would like. See a few below:
- Students who are into video games might like this one. The Halo game series is quite popular.
- Ken's favorite!
