Lighthouses

Our fourth grade students do a lighthouse project around this time of the school year.  In the past, they've been allowed to work on it at home with a set list of materials they can use.  The projects can turn out quite big.  They make models ranging in size from the size of a 2 liter bottle to 3 ft tall.  The problem is that some of the projects came back looking too good.  They almost looked professionally made.  Well meaning parents may have helped too much, lol.  Some of the students would even say during their presentations that they didn't make any of it.  Well, the fourth grade teachers decided to fix that this year...by requiring the students to build their lighthouses at school...in my art class.  I scrounged around my trusty art closet and collected anything I thought might be useful.  I had a bag of pringle's cans, a bag of big gulp cups, a lot of newspaper, and various other materials.  I decided to have them use paper mache.  We're going to make lighthouse scenes with houses, ocean, trees, etc.  Here they are starting to paper mache their various forms.  I thought it would be nice to take pictures of them during their stages of development.

 You can kind of see them starting to take shape.  I'm going to post pics as the lighthouses develop.