Pigs Can Fly!

Sixth graders discussed Cincy's rich "Porkopolis" heritage, the Flying Pig Marathon, and of course the Big Pig Gig sculpture exhibit as inspiration for their latest project, paper mache flying pigs! 

We stuffed grocery bags for the bodies, cut up toilet paper rolls for the snout and feet, cut up cereal boxes for the wings, and finally applied 3 layers of paper mache (paper towels / newspaper) before painting our wild and wonderful creations. Students were encouraged to create an "artistic" pig, not one that looked "realistic." Needless to say, they went hog wild! 

Egyptian Portraits

Students drew an Egyptian styled self portrait and embellished it with glitter and ancient Egyptian inspired patterns. For the background, sixth graders designed their own cartouche with hieroglyphs an Egyptian symbols. Folded paper is used to pop the portraits up from the background.