Paper Sculpture

Class 1

We had a wonderful morning when David Swinton, a paper sculptor, came to visit us.

Mr Swinton showed us, step by step, how to make a sculpted face from thin cardboard.

We had been reading parts of Shakespeare's Macbeth and thought about the characters.

 
   

We learned how to build up the face of a character by folding, cutting and sticking paper.
   

They are so good you cannot tell which are ours and which are Mr Swinton's.

Every face has a different character, some angry, some sad, some scheming, some wicked.

They are all very different.

Our finished faces are brilliant!!
   

Class 2

Mr Swinton came to tell us about paper sculpture and to teach us how to do it.

We had already drawn some pictures of structures and looked at the shapes we could see.
   

We were taught how to fold and cut, and how to join strips of card together to make frameworks.

Boys and girls worked together as teams.
   

Different paper sculptures include a lighthouse, flats, a bridge and houses.
   

Everybody thoroughly enjoyed the day.
   

Class 3

Mr Smith's class also worked with Mr. Swinton to create paper sculptures.

Matthew and Graham concentrating really hard on curling and scoring to make a snake shape.

Mr Swinton helps Katie make the most of her paper sculpture.
   

Sometimes 4 hands are better than two, for awkward corners (and 2 heads are better than 1).

The structures had to be carefully measured and joined at perfect right angles.
We also found cocktail sticks spread the glue perfectly.
   

European Connection

Teachers from Poland, Finland and Holland share the talents of David Swinton, our paper sculptor in residence, (with one of his creations).

(Get an Eye-full of that!!)