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Dale Chihuly bowls - coffee filter, paint and starch.  Also, heat gun Chihuly fun too Paint Coffee, Liquid Starch, Celebration Decorations, Coffee Colors, Dale Chihuly, School Celebration, Coffee Filters, Art Lessons Elementary, School Art Projects

The Joslyn in Omaha has an awesome Dale Chihuly sculpture that definitely made an impact on the kids. Today they were super excited to do their Chihuly inspired projects. In honor of Mr. Chihuly's Macchia Bowl series we created coffee filter bowls. Dale Chihuly's Macchia Bowls Original coffee filter use watercolor to paint, spray with spray starch, put over a bottle to dry... our Macchia Bowls... and the leftover from the painting... can you say happy accident! In honor of Dale Chihuly's Sea…

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Coffee Filter Art, 3d Art Projects, 2nd Grade Art, Dale Chihuly, Art Camp, Elementary Art Projects, Kindergarten Art, Art Lessons Elementary, School Art Projects

A while back I saw a great Chihuly lesson posted on The Crayon Lab blog (here). I've seen quite a few Chihuly inspired art lessons on the web, but I liked the simplicity of using rubber bands to hold the coffee filters on paint bottles before spraying starch on them. I pretty much followed the steps in that lesson, except I didn't have enough paint bottles, so we used plastic cups from Smart & Final (seems like I've been living there lately!). I also showed the kids a slide show loop that is…

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Chihuly inspired wall sculpture. Mrs. O'Connell's Art Room: 1st Grade Elementary School Art, School Art Projects, Chihuly, Wall Sculpture, Elementary Art, Wall Sculptures, 1st Grade, Grade 1, Art Room

Kindergarten and first grade got in on the Chihuly action as well by designing their own Macchia. Macchia is Italian for spotted. Students discussed how Chihuly created these spotted organic sculptures using glass. We also discussed the differnce between shapes and forms. In order to create their own, stuents decorated a coffee filter. Using watercolor markers, they created patterns shapes and finally spots. The completed designs were attached to a plastic cup with a rubberband and sprayed…

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