Year 3 – Sculpture

Year 3- Art- Sculpture- Alexander Calder

Year 3 worked their magic with paper and some old cardboard boxes . The children used their learning about American sculptor Alexander Calder to created their own sculptures. They focused on Calder’s stabile sculptures. They found out that a stabile is a stationary sculpture that has taken on an abstract form. Alexander Calder created his structures out of steel. 

After exploring the work of Calder, the children made their own versions using paper. They explored how the paper could be manipulated by folding, twisting and bending.

The children then went on to think about shape, height and colour. They used cardboard to construct sculptures without using anything to hold the pieces together. The children need to think about how they could cut and slot the shapes in to place.