Weeks of 9/30/24 and 10/7/24 - 2nd and 3rd grades

 2nd and 3rd graders returned to create Hojolata art! 

Hojalata is a Mexican folk art form that involves shaping, cutting and painting tin into decorative and functional objects. The word "Hojalata" translates to "tin art".

We looked at the below example and had a class discussion about what we saw - bumps on the work, bright colors and students guessed what material was used to create this. Some guessed plastic, metal, and some guessed clay. Once done, we looked at several other examples of Hojalata art. 

2nd graders cut slits into an 8" X 10" piece of cardboard. They used yarn to go inside the slits and taped the ends. They then pressed a piece of tin foil on top of the yarn to create an embossed effect, folded the sides and taped them to the back. They then used paint sticks to color between the embossed areas and created line patterns to complete their work. This took us 2 1 hour classes.

3rd graders each got a piece of white copy paper with a 5" square already drawn. On the blank side of their paper, they drew 2 squares and created a symmetrical design inside each using lines and shapes as a warm up. They then created their actual design inside the 5" square. They then taped their 5" foil with the silver side facing the back of their 5" square. They put their work on a piece of cardboard and pressed their pencil into their design to create an embossed effect. 

During the next class students peeled off the tape and used their pencil to again press into their foil to create a more embossed effect. They used Sharpie markers to fill in spaces. They centered their foil on a 12" cardboard, drew the outline with a pencil. They used paint sticks to create more lines and shapes incorporating symmetry. They used double sided tape to fix their foil inside the outline in the center of the cardboard and finish their work. This also took us 2 1 hour classes.