This is my first year trying this activity, but I thought they turned out beautifully and I thought I would share! This makes a wonderful gift for students to make for their families or for you to make at home with your little ones! The wonderful thing about this activity is that you can also increase the difficulty of the art project with the age of the students.
I have seen different projects of students drawing a picture on a cereal box and then the teacher traces along the lines with a hot glue gun and once it dries you cover it with tinfoil and color. I had tried this and mine turned out just ok. It was hard to see the detail and for little ones I could see it being more difficult.
Supplies needed:
White paper
Page protectors – cut so that you are only using one side of the page protector (so, cut along the sides of the page protector and it will fall apart and now you have two pieces!)
Permanent markers – for tracing the outline and coloring in your picture
Tinfoil
Cereal boxes – cut one side of a cereal box out, then cover with tinfoil
Step 1. Depending on the age of the student’s who are doing this craft you could do it a couple of ways.
1. Choose a directed drawing that you like (that is what I did with the wreath picture – it is from Art Hub for Kids on youtube). Students can draw this on a piece of paper in pencil and then put a page protector over top (secured with paper clips). They then can trace their image on the paper onto their page protector with black permanent marker. (I just drew mine straight on the page protector with permanent marker, but their are likely going to be mistakes with little ones).
I would give my students two to choose from – we could take turns completing two, or you could do a class vote and the one with the most votes is the one that wins – or you pick 😉 For those that don’t celebrate Christmas they could easily do a snowman or a different picture!
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2. Students could draw their own drawing on white paper and then place a page protector over top and trace it with black permanent marker and color the rest of the picture with permanent marker. Place paper clips on the edges of the paper and the page protector while tracing.
Step 2. Once your students have their picture draw on their paper and they have traced it with permanent marker onto their page protector, they are now ready to color! They get to take permanent markers and color their picture. Remember to remind them to color in the same direction.
Step 3. Once their picture is colored, take a black permanent marker and make lines from their picture to the edge of the page. They can also color those in.
Step 4. Cut out one side of a cereal box.
Step 5. Gently crumple a piece of tinfoil and wrap it around your cut out cereal box. Feel free to tap. (I showed an example of what it looks like if you choose not to crumple it).
Step 6. Staple the finished page protector onto the tinfoil and you are done!
I love these and thing the page protectors allow the pictures to bend and mold with ease to the tinfoil.
If you like this activity or you use it with your class please tag me in it @firstgradelodge on Instagram!
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