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Lesson Plans


Straw ideas.......

From: Bunki Kramer (bkramer.us)
Date: Thu Jun 22 2000 - 13:46:07 PDT

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    from: Bunki Kramer (bkramer.us)
    Los Cerros Middle School
    968 Blemer Road
    Danville, CA 94526
    http://ww2.lcms.srvusd.k12.ca.us/faculty/faculty.html
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    >> Cleaning out the layers of stuff before me as many of you are doing
    >>this time of year. 25 boxes of plastic straws. Any ideas?? Thanks, Peggy
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    You didn't say how old your students were but you could paint them
    individually with diff. colors, cut them up, and make a relief of diff.
    sizes into unique colorwheel designs on const. paper or matboard.

    You could blow perm. ink designs on watercolor paper and when dry make
    non-objective watercolor designs.

    If students are old enough, you could "blow" bleach on colored construction
    paper, put in the sun, when dry go around bleach designs with ink pen and
    color with pastels. (You actually don't even have to "blow". Just fill a
    glass with bleach, put your finger on the tip of the straw while in the
    bleach, pull out of the glass, put on colored const. paper, and SLOWLY
    remove your finger while moving the straw.) Do this outside please or the
    kids will drop like flies.

    You could paint them...then weave with them.

    You can make great tetraheadron kites with them. Any kite book worths it's
    salt has the directions.

    Sew them together and make GREAT geometric shapes for large sculpture. Make
    a classroom community sculpture. You can cover them with colored tissue and
    gluestick for more solid forms or wrap plaster gauze to these geo shapes for
    permanency.

    They make great little sticks to do tiny macrame on.

    "Sew" them with long needle and string through the middle, bend, tie to make
    small bracelets...cover with paper mache to make strong...put them around a
    coke bottle to dry.

    Play pick-up-sticks...hee hee.

    There's also a book somewhere you can buy...maybe NASCO or SAX...that has
    all sorts of ideas for straws. Look in your art catalogues. 

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