Paper Sculpture: Playhouse and Playground

Overview

In this lesson, you will make a playhouse or playground from different types of paper.

Grade Level

K-3

Media

Construction (Sculpture)

Step 1

Collect and prepare strips of thin and thick paper. =

Step 2

Find a large sturdy cardboard for a base. (Cut a piece from a box or use a folder.)

Step 3

Roll a piece of paper. Look at your form. Imagine what it could be.

Fold a paper. Look at it, flip it over. Imagine what it could be. A tent? A roof? Walls?

Fold a zig zag and look at it. Imagine what it could be. Stairs? Flowing water?

Step 4

Stack the forms, look at them and imagine what it could be.

What do you want in your playhouse or playground?

Step 5

Use your base and imagine it as ground.

Arrange your folded and curled forms. Stack and balance them.

Try standing a form and leaning it against another form.
it against another form.

Step 6

Take a photo of your finished artwork and share it on!

Pieces can also go around or inside.

What parts did you make for your playhouse/playground?

How did you make them? (zig zag, curved, flat strip of paper, twisted, etc.)

I made a _________ see saw _________ with _________ a zigzag form on top of a curved tunnel form.

I made a _________ with _______________.

Isamu Noguchi, Playscapes, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA, 1976.

Isamu Noguchi, Playground equipment for Ala Moana Park, Hawaii, 1940.

Written By:
Cynthia Chen, Artist Instructor