4 Class Periods
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| Lucky Sun Designs, Fourth Grade Lesson |
* This lesson was inspired by Cassie Stephens Mexican Sun/Moon Weavings. Feel free to check out her blog to see some amazing student work as well as her own directions for this lesson.
Day 1:
Students examined a powerpoint that I created on the Metepec Culture, the pottery they create and the symbolism of the sun and moon. We discussed how the Metepec culture thought the sun designs to be lucky. We thought of items in our own culture that we considered lucky. Students used the remainder of the class period to brainstorm ideas for their own sun designs.
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| Brainstorming Ideas |
Day 2:
Students took their brainstorm sheets from the class period before to look at for reference for this class session. Students traced a circle (I used a Pringle potato chip lid for a stencil) on a piece of tagboard (4 x 4 inches). Students then traced their eyes, nose and mouth off of their brainstorm sheet onto a piece of foam (2 x 4 inches long). These pieces were then cut out and glued to the circle to help create a relief. Pieces were set to the side to dry.
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| Tracing design on a piece of foam. |
Students then painted a cardboard circle with warm colors. The cardboard circles I used have a diameter of 5 inches. They were given to me as school donation. You could obviously create your own circle out of cardboard or use a paper plate, like Cassie did in her lesson.
Day 3:
Students will cut circle out of tagboard. Use spray glue to fix aluminum foil (5 x 5 inch square) to circle. Have students wrap the foil around the circle and then burnish it with their hand to expose the relief created by the foam pieces glued in the previous class. Students then color the foam using colored sharpie markers. Before students leave class, have them glue their foil sun to the center of the cardboard circle that they painted in the previous class.
Day 4:
On this last day of the lesson student create marks on the cardboard around the sun with a sharpie marker. Students need to have an odd number of marks (for us the number eleven worked out very well). After the marks are made, students cut on the marks to the foil circle.
Next, yarn pieces were woven around the circles. Students could choose 1 to 4 pieces of yarn to weave around their compositions.
As a finishing touch, students used puffy paint to add details to the sun motif.
Student Examples:
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