Magazine Sculptures!

We are joining in on TinkerLab's Magazine Challenge  involving a bunch of super creative bloggers!!!  I LOVE these Challenges because they really get our creative juices flowing! (We had a blast with The Cardboard Box Challenge back in May.) The idea for this challenge is to take old magazines and create something with them! We decided to create magazine sculptures!  The way we created them is kind of similar to the way we created our Paper Candy Canes from a few posts ago.  Here is one of our sculptures:

To create our sculptures, we used torn out magazine pages,  a stapler, transparent tape,  and a pencil or marker.  Staplers and transparent tape are my daughters favorite materials to work with.  I think these materials are so empowering for a child and if you have never left your children use these....please do!
As an art teacher,  I would see kids using staplers and tape and they could never get enough....it was like they had some sort of deprivation of these materials!

For our sculptures, we basically followed these steps:  Roll up the magazine into a tube.

Flatten and staple or tape the tube.

Then curl the ends with a pencil or marker (like our Paper Candy Canes).

Here is C hard at work curling.

We simply stapled and taped the pieces together and twisted and turned them whichever way we chose.  It was good to start out with some sort of circular base and build onto it.  It reminded me of our Paper Strip Sculptures!!!

Here are our Magazine sculptures!  I'm really Happy with the way they turned out!

My Sculpture

C's Sculpture

Cassie even created this collage out of magazine pages too! 

We had FUN!  Thanks TinkerLab for your inspiration to create something from nothing!  Be sure to check out the other Magazine Creations from the others involved in this challenge in the linky below!  There will be more Challenges coming up every other month from TinkerLab!  Stay Tuned...

Here are all the blogs involved in this challenge: Child Central Station  , kids in the studio , Teach Mama,  The Imagination Tree,Childhood101 , Teach Preschool,  hands on as we grow , Artful Parent , Paint Cut Paste , A Mom With A Lesson Plan , Toddler Approved , Kiwi Crate,  Art 4 Little Hands,   Red Ted Art,  The Chocolate Muffin Tree,   Imagination Soup,Michelles Charm World , Messy Preschoolers , Tinker Lab,  Mommy Labs,  Putti Prapancha, Sun Hats and Wellie Boots