This was a elegant little bat skeleton made from popsicle sticks and coffee stirrers. The addition of the black shadow box allowed for the flying insects to "interact" in the bat's environment. It also gives it a cool Joseph Cornell sensibility.
This little project was just straight-up cute. It's the classic glue-soaked twine wrapped around the balloon, which is then popped when the glue has dried. A few years back, we made our Trim-A-Tree with copper wire using this technique. It might be fun to revisit that process once again - perhaps with less expensive materials, like embroidery floss and seed beads?
These painted "blocks" of notched cardboard make for a very fun building material. It would be great to see a project that used both notched flat pieces of cardboard along with notched pieces toilet paper rolls. I'm especially glad they painted these - it's colorful and cheerful, yet still structurally amazing.
These little figural sculptures start with the classic 2 strands of wire, stapled to a small plywood base. Bent into a figure and then wrapped with color wire to show the fullness of the body. These are particularly successful since they depict such movement - I love the beaded hula hoop and the handstand is quite charming as well. Many different materials can be used once the wire base is stapled . . . sculpey, baker's clay, model magic, modeling clay or plaster all make for great figures on a wire armature.
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