Students used painted paper loaded with glitter paint, traced a large guitar template, and cut out the shape. Next students added the razzle dazzle, sequins, tempera paint patterns, strings made from bright paper strips and buttons. These groovy guitars are going to be displayed in our Marketplace after the 4th grade paints the Market stalls.
8 Comments
Jacquelien
October 6, 2009 at 3:32 pmWow, these are great!
Jessica
October 24, 2009 at 1:56 pmI love the guitars! I'm so excited to have found your site, thanks to a suggestion by google reader. I'll be checking in often.
Hope Chella
January 4, 2010 at 7:05 pmI'm doing this one too…Again, awesome ideas and a perfect way to tie in their hispanic studies 🙂
gretchen buwalda
October 30, 2012 at 6:14 pmThank you for this lesson. We will be making them today with 5 year olds. That is two art teachers and 37 five year olds. It should be a challenge but our motivation is your great looking results.
gretchen buwalda
November 1, 2012 at 7:03 amWe did it. They are very different to yours, but I often find that other peoples lessons are simply excellent motivators. Thank you. http://gretchenbuwalda.blogspot.co.nz
sara
March 4, 2014 at 7:05 pmLove the guitars!
Andi Werboff
September 6, 2019 at 1:48 pmHi Laura.
I want to do this with second graders or 3rd graders
Specifically:
— How many class periods did this take?
— What kind of card board for the guitar shape? Were they able to cut it out themselves?
— How large are the guitars?
–Any other tips?
–Elmer’s Glue All, or something stronger?
Coincidentally, I just did this with my four year old, and of course I did all the cutting. He decorated.
Thanks for any and all feedback you can give.
Laura
September 22, 2019 at 8:18 pmWe just used 12 x 18 construction paper and regular Glue All. It takes about 2- 40 minute class periods. 🙂