Yes, students design, create their own pattern and sew their own sculptures.
My students love sewing. I have made a small instructional book for basic stitches which seems to help me get to help to more students and made it so that they can take it home to practice. I will post that soon, along with patterns for this and past posts. I can't wait to share all we do in class.
Oh, this semester after doing this project, a student knocked on my door. When I opened it, I noticed her holding a large torn cushion and said that her reading teacher's pillow broke. I almost knew I was about to be given something else to do, but instead she asked for thread so that she could use the "overcast stitch so to fix it." Ahhhhhh!!! I couldn't ask for more than to see students using the life skills that they can better their environment.
Every year I make a different sample doll as I am showing them the process of making our own patterns.
You can read on the Smithsonian that thousands of monarchs travel to a little town in Mexico and stay there for the winter. In the Spring time, they make their way back to the US and travel throughout the US and to the southern part of Canada. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/where-see-thousands-monarch-butterflies-180953961/
Oh, a student surprised me with the top right, silk monarch a few days after the lesson. She also let me know that her and her dad were going to the OKC Zoo on monarch day to learn even more about them and get seeds to help out the monarchs..... sounds like music to this teacher's ear.
Possible Topics/terms:
Science (migration, butterfly life cycle, pollinators)
Social Studies (migration, countries working together for the good of all)
Art (contrast, warm colors)
Possible mediums:
for color- (crayons, pastels, watercolor, tempra, color tissue paper
