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Mardi Gras Art
Contact_FullName: Anita Contact_Email: Alagasse@sttimothyumc.org Area: Mardi Gras - Art Idea: Mardi Gras Floats Being from the New Orleans area, we very much are into Parades at this time of year. In my church related preschool, each class or individual student, decorates a shoe box as a float with a theme. Ask the children to bring in shoeboxes from home. The can use the top of the box as the back of their float and turn the shoebox upside down and decorate it with purple, green and gold colors of Mardi Gras. The children can paint the shoebox or use construction paper and cover the entire box. We add beads and doubloons on our floats as decorations. Crepe paper work well also. We then display our floats in the school hallway on the day we have our School Mardi Gras Parade. Contact_FullName: Holly Contact_Email: hollyberndt@yahoo.com Area: Mardi Gras-Art Idea: Mardi Gras Tambourines Each student will need to decorate the outside of two paper plates. Cut triangles out of the rim to look like a star or sun shape. Place a handful of beans into the center of one paper plate and glue the edges together. Punch holes into some of the triangles and tie ribbons with beads on the ends. These make fun tambourines for the students to use. Contact_FullName: kerri pate Contact_Email: jktcpates@comcast.net Area: mardi gras Idea: Cut out two brown circle pieces of paper, have the child fill one side with cotton balls and then put the other one on top. Now you have a moon pie. Contact_FullName: patri gast Contact_Email: patri_f_gast@yahoo.com Area: arts and crafts Idea: I teach preschool early intervention, and being from the Louisiana, I love Mardi Gras. One of the activities we do after talking about safety at a parade is "Throw Me Something Mister." Take a small paper plate and make a face out of it. Using a sentence strip, fold the sentence strip in half but on an angle. Glue the strip onto the plate that has been decorated like a face, with the ends pointing up, to look like arms. The children then make a pattern using green, purple and yellow on the arms. You should end up with a figure with it's arms in the air waiting for some throws. This makes a cute bulletin board. Contact_FullName: melanie Contact_Email: melaniedsmith@hotmail.com Area: Mardi Gras-Art Idea: Handsome Mardi Gras Mask: Trace Students hands so that the palms are connected. When you cut hands they are one piece with fingers spread out to the sides. Cut out eye holes, let students decorate, then add a large craft stick to the side of mask for students to hold. I add one gold, one green, and one purple piece of ribbon when I attach craft stick. These are very cute mask made from their own hand prints. 11-4-00Paper Plate Masks 1. Cut a sturdy paper plate in half. 2. Staple a tongue depressor to the bottom right hand corner. 3. Cut a slot in the middle of the half plate to look through. Present a smorgasbord of materials for the children to glue onto their mask. Mine consisted of feathers...wood shavings dyed range....yarn pieces....shiny papers....buttons... egg carton bumps... green Styrofoam pieces and brown curly nesting material. After the children glued these things onto their masks they could hold them up to their face Mardi Gras style. (<:)
Date: 3-5-00Necklace painting: *Take plastic Mardi Gras necklaces found in carnival sections of party stores and attach a clothespin *place 3 trays of tempera (yellow, green and purple) on the table *allow children to make beautiful artwork ;)
Date: 2-29-00Mardi Gras Masks and Necklaces Materials: Large Paper Plates Very sharp scissors (teacher use) Markers Crayons Glue Feathers Streamers Beads Waxed Cord Large Craft Sticks Stapler (teacher use) Directions: Teacher-attach a craft stick to the bottom of each plate with the stapler. Use the scissors or an Exacto knife to cut out eye holes and a mouth on each paper plate mask. Let the children use the glue, feathers, crayons and markers or whatever else you may have around to decorate their masks. To make the bead necklaces: Teachers cut a length or waxed cord for each child. Tie a large knot in the end so the beads don't fall off. Let the children string as many beads as they want/will fit on the cord and tie the ends together. Have your own masquerade ball/Mardi Gras party with the masks and necklaces that you have all made. My class had so much fun with this
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