Spotted -- Macchia "Glass"

This is another Chihuly-inspired project.  Our children are being exposed to more of the glass work of Dale Chihuly, especially because he hails from Seattle.  Surely, we must make a trip to the Seattle Center to see a glimpse of the glass garden. And perhaps the parents can take their children on a trip during the summer to Tacoma to browse around the Glass Museum. 

On http://artwithrmotta.blogspot.com/search/label/Chihuly%20Art%20lesson%20plans, which I found on Pinterest, we were given the means to continue building on our "glass work".  I mimicked the wall design, but I also added the "glass" from our previous projected called Imitation Glass.

For this project, the kids had to color two coffee filters.  I told them they did not have to color in all the white spaces.  They blew a sigh of relief. With the Imitation Glass, instructions were to color all of the clear plastic.

I asked them to cut around the lip of the coffee filter so that they would not all have the same uniform shape.

Ahh, the dreaded rubberbands.   "Watch me;  I'll do the first one and you do the second."  After several attempts,  "How do you put this on?" 

                                       

Since we had two in-house bathrooms, we shut down one to use as our spray house.  That's where we are with newspapers laid out and the cups placed on the floor waiting for...

the spray starch.  This was foreign to the kids.  Does anyone iron their clothes anymore?  A few were tentative to handle the spray can.  After instructions as to how to hold the can, what finger to use, a demonstration in squirting (short bursts) , you can imagine that those cups were drowned in their own stiffener, not to mention the underlying newspapers.

Here are some cups in the drying stage.

And some more.

These are dried and released from their rubber bands.

More batches getting ready to be displayed.  And how do I do that?  That skyscraper of a ladder is needed to scale the wall.  No worries.  Yes, I'm afraid of heights.  I'll let my partner do it.

Here are a few of the "Macchia" close up:

                                         

Supplies:

1. coffee filters (ours were small)

2. markers

3. scissors

4. spray starch

5. rubber bands

6. paper cups 

7. newspaper

Directions:

1. cut around the lip of the coffee filter making interesting edgings

2. have kids decorate the coffee filters with markers

3. place filter over drinking cup and secure with a rubber band

4. lay out newspaper

5. place cups on floor

6. spray with starch and let dry

7. display

Duration:

Depending on how fast you color, only 20-30 minutes, plus drying another 40-50 minutes

Note:

By the way, "macchia" is Italian for spotted.