Thursday: The Importance of the Arts—Paper Mobile and Calder

August 21st, 2008 in Thursday: The Importance of the Arts

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For our second art lesson we learned about Alexander Calder, sometimes the artist known for his “mobiles” along with many other things. I explained to Abby that Calder thought of a new way to sculpt, by bending and twisted wire to “draw” his figures in space.

Of course bending, twisting and cutting metal wires with a toddler would not be a smart idea so we decided to bend and twist paper to make our mobile.

While we were at the craft store earlier in the week I let my daughter Abby pick out the colors and designs of card-stock that caught her eye.

Abby and I traced weird shapes on paper and I cut them out.

Then we cut small (1 inch) slits on each paper of cardstock on each piece where I wanted to attach them together (I did this as we assembled it).

I hung the first piece on a string attached to the ceilings so it would be easier to assemble. I did end up having to use a little tape. Here is a picture of our masterpiece from the bottom, we have it hanging over our art table and it is fun to look at everyday!