When my son was in first grade he made a project with the theme Primary Color Super Heroes. I loved the idea and knew that I wanted to do something with my kids using this theme too. I thought it would be perfect for my tinfoil people project that I had planned for fourth grade this year.
In class we reviewed the color wheel(primary, secondary, intermediate colors) as well as warm, cool, analogous and complementary colors. We also talked about tints and shades. It was a lot of information but we had talked about all of it at different times throughout the years.
Their challenge was to create a super hero that had a power that was connected to color somehow. The kids had a great time coming up with different powers but the challenge was linking it to the color wheel. We had some really creative powers.
The armature for the super hero was made from heavy duty aluminum foil. Here are some directions I found on Pinterest. Here is a link with great directions:http://2peasandadog.blogspot.ca/2013/03/tinfoil-sculpture-art-lesson.html
Once the armature was made we covered them with paper mache. This was a little challenging for the kids but they did a good job with it.
The kids made sketches of the ideas so they were able to refer to them when it came time to paint and decorate their superheroes. I had a variety of odds and ends that they could use for capes and other decorations. They really enjoyed this part. We used cardboard to create stands for them too.
Here are some of the finished pieces.
Some sketches
Our final part of the project was to use the ipad app ComicBook! to create a comic page of our super hero telling about them and their powers. This is a great app and the kids had fun with it. Here are some of their comic book pages.
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