Thursday, September 1, 2011

Creating Paper Beads

Yesterday, on the 5th day of class, we spent the majority of time cutting, winding, and gluing paper into beads.  I had shown the students a couple of decorating ideas on Monday.  Most of them used the colored construction paper with both the wooden skewers and the round toothpicks and Elmer's Glue.  When we come back to class on Wednesday next week we'll start out by coating the beads with Acrylic Gloss Medium.  This will give them a protective coat and make them shiny.

I put together a short video using some short clips of students at varying stages of construction along with 38 pictures of the beads they produced.  Looking forward to a few days off.  Enjoy the video.

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