Hi there! I’m Jeremy, and I love reading and making art. My books are everywhere, so I decided to make some fun bookends that look like monster feet. Want to join me? Let’s get started!
First, we need to make a foot shape. Grab a piece of cardboard and draw a foot shape with a pencil. Don’t worry about the toes yet! Once you have your foot shape, cut it out carefully. Now, let’s add a leg using a cardboard tube. If it has a lid, that’s even better because you can hide things inside!
Next, let’s make some monster toes using styrofoam balls. Glue them onto the foot, using a bigger ball for the big toe. Remember, this is a monster foot, so it only needs four toes!
Now it’s time to paint! I chose purple because it’s my favorite color, but you can pick any color you like. Paint the whole foot and let it dry.
To make sure our bookends don’t tip over, we need a base. I found a big piece of fun foam that’s perfect for this. It’s larger than the foot, so it will keep everything stable.
Let’s make it look even cooler! I cut out some fun foam flowers and stacked them to look like real flowers. You can use a twist tie to hold them together. Glue them onto the base, and it will look like your monster foot is walking through a meadow!
For a fun touch, I added a leg warmer made from a dish scrubby. Just cut out the center and unravel it to wrap around the leg.
One of my favorite things is claymation! It’s a type of animation where you use clay to make characters. You can change the clay easily to make it look like your character is moving.
To start, make a clay frog. Take a picture, move the frog a little, and take another picture. Keep doing this, and when you look at the pictures quickly, it will seem like the frog is jumping all by itself!
Try making different versions of your frog with big eyes or a flat body. Swap them out as you take pictures to create a fun animation.
Do you like splattering paint? Let’s make a masterpiece! Start with a blank piece of paper and some paint. Put blobs of paint on the paper, fold it in half, and press down. When you open it, you’ll have a cool picture!
Once it’s dry, look at your picture and see what you can find. Maybe it looks like an animal or an airplane. Use oil pastels to add details and make it even more amazing.
For my recycle challenge, I made a castle using a plastic flower pot and a cardboard roll. I even included a peanut in my creation! I challenge you to make something with a flower pot and a cardboard roll. Take a picture and share it with me at artsuka.com.
What will you create today? I can’t wait to see your amazing art!
Monster Feet Adventure: Take a walk around your house or garden and look for objects that could be used to make monster feet bookends. Can you find different materials like leaves, stones, or twigs that could be used to decorate your monster feet? Draw a picture of your monster feet design and share it with your friends or family. Discuss how different materials can change the look and feel of your creation.
Claymation Storytelling: Create a short story using clay characters. Make a simple clay character, like a frog or a bird, and think about what adventure they might go on. Use a camera or a smartphone to take pictures of your character in different poses. Try to tell a story with at least five pictures. Share your story with your classmates and see if they can guess what happens next!
Paint Splatter Discovery: Go outside with a piece of paper and some paint. Use a brush or your fingers to splatter paint onto the paper. Once it dries, look closely at your splatter art. Can you find shapes or patterns that remind you of something? Maybe a cloud, a tree, or even a monster? Use crayons or markers to add details and turn your splatter art into a scene or a character. Share your artwork and the story behind it with your class.
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Hey, I’m Jeremy! Let’s start Artsuka! I love to read and create art. I have books everywhere, and it’s a bit of a mess, so I decided to make some bookends that look like feet. Let’s make them!
First, I’ll need something to create a foot shape, and this piece of cardboard will work great. With my pencil, I’m going to draw out a foot shape, but I won’t draw any toes just yet. Once I have my foot shape, I’ll cut it out. When I’m finished cutting, it’ll look like this.
Now, this foot needs a leg, so a cardboard tube will work perfectly. This one has a lid on top, which is great for hiding or storing things inside. You can use any cardboard tube you have lying around. I’ll glue that in place, and once that’s done, I can move on to the toes. For the toes, I’m going to use some styrofoam balls and glue those exactly where I want them. For the big toe, I’m using a larger styrofoam ball. Remember, this foot isn’t a human foot; it’s a monster foot with only four toes.
Once everything is glued into place, we’ll be ready to paint. I’m going to paint mine purple because I love that color, but you can choose any color you like. Get lots of paint on your brush and cover the whole thing. Once I’ve covered it, I’ll set it off to dry.
Sometimes, when you stand on one leg, it can be hard to keep your balance. When we lean books against the leg we’re making, it might tip over. I think I have something in my trunk of junk to make a base for my foot. A base will make my bookends more stable. This big piece of fun foam is larger than the foot I’ve made, which will create a stable base when I put my painted foot on it.
Now, this looks great, but I have a couple of tips to make it look amazing! I cut out some fun foam into flower shapes. They look nice, but when I stack them on top of each other, it looks more like a real flower with lots of petals. A great tip to connect those together is to take a little twist tie, poke it through the middle, and tie it off. I’ve made a couple of these flowers, and I want to glue them into place. Once they’re glued, it’ll look like this.
I also cut out a few extra pieces and made grass, so now it looks like my monster foot is walking through a meadow. But that leg looks a bit bare, so I found a dish scrubby in my trunk of junk. I cut out the center part so it looks like a donut, and then I can unravel it to create a leg warmer.
These feet bookends are really easy to make! Start by cutting out a piece of cardboard into the shape of a foot. A cardboard tube makes a great leg, and if you use one with a lid, you can hide things inside it too. Add some foam balls for monster-style toes, then paint it any way you like. I put mine on a piece of fun foam and cut out some fun foam flowers that I attached together with twist ties. Your feet bookends can wear leg warmers too; these ones are made out of a dish scrubby.
I’d love to see your feet bookends! Send me a picture at artsuka.com.
One of my favorite kinds of animation is claymation. I love working with clay because you can change it easily. Anyone with a camera and some clay can be a claymation artist! I need to keep the camera steady, so I put it on a stack of books. I have to tilt it to see the frog I’ve made with clay. I’m going to make it look like he’s jumping over to that log all by himself. This is stop-motion animation. If I change the frog a little bit and then take a picture, and then change him a little bit more and take another picture, when I look at these pictures quickly, it looks like the frog is moving all by himself.
I’ve made a bunch of different versions of this frog with slight changes to each. This one is my main character, and I gave him big bulgy eyes. I have other versions where he looks scrunched up, flat, or even like a pancake. The trick is to take a picture of one frog, switch it with another, and keep moving them closer to the log while taking pictures. When I look at all the pictures together quickly, it looks like the same frog is changing.
Using clay to make movie characters is super fun! You can create your frog character in different shapes and sizes. Take a picture of your frog, then move and change him a little, and take another picture. Keep moving and changing your frog and taking new snaps. When you play all the pictures back quickly, it looks like your froggy is changing all by himself.
For more fun ideas like this, check out artsuka.com.
Hey, Jeremy! My name is Noah. Can you make something from party decorations? Let’s see what we can do with beads, decorations, and streamers.
It’s a dragon! It’s all in how you look at it.
Do you love splattering things? I love it too! Let’s create a masterpiece. The first thing I need is a blank piece of paper and a little bit of paint. This is super simple and really fun. I glob some paint onto the page. I don’t need much because this stuff goes a long way. You can do half of the page or the entire thing, but just make sure you have some random blobs on the page. Now, fold it in half and press down. When I unfold the page, we have a really cool picture!
The best part is we can work on this and add to it to make it look even better. Here’s one that I let dry earlier. The cool part is to observe what we made and see if a picture pops out.
I see something! These could be eyes, ears, maybe a mouth. It looks like some sort of animal to me. Now let’s add some detail. I’ll use an oil pastel because it’ll work great on this paint.
Now, this looks really great, but how about taking this splatter trick in a different direction? Here’s one I made earlier that looks like an airplane. If I fold it in half, it could look like a big rock, so I turned it into a beautiful tropical island with palm trees and a sunset.
These splat drawings are really fun and easy to make. Put a bit of ink or paint on your paper, fold it in half, and press down. Once it’s dry, you can draw on your picture and add more features. I like to fold these splat pictures in half too and see if I can find two different pictures on each side.
There are lots of great ideas like this at artsuka.com.
Now, time for an Artsuka safety message: Remember, when taking pictures, be sure to say “cheese!”
For my Artsuka recycle challenge, I challenged myself to make something out of a plastic flower pot and a cardboard roll. I put them in a movie starring a paper bag. Come see what I made!
Did you like the movie? I made a castle out of a flower pot and a cardboard roll. Did you spot the peanut? Take another look at how I used it. I challenge you to make something out of a flower pot and a cardboard roll, and when you do, take a picture and email it to me at the Artsuka website, artsuka.com.
What will you create today?
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