School Wide Art Instillation...what you can do with a wire hanger!

I never got around to posting this last spring and I think it is a worthwhile school-wide project to do. I chose to do it the last month of school but it might be a nice thing to do on these cold winter days. In TAB/CHOICE, students are working independently most often. Every year I make sure that I do something that we all work on together. This work was done by kindergarten through fifth grade. I want students to know that with everyone's effort,  we can make a powerful piece of art for our school. maryellen

 Captain Kids...

We have many hangers in the art studio. What in the world shall we do with them? Cutting them gets a little too sharp and pokey. So, we will wrap them in yarns and bend them into lovely abstract forms. We will keep working on them until we have enough for a wall! We will put them together with little pieces of pipe cleaners. We work together at Captain School to make really cool things!

Captain Students

*there is an art center outside of the art studio that has all of the supplies and directions needed to make a hanger sculpture.
*you may take the hanger and yarn home to work on this project
*bring it back to school and we will add it to the rest of them

If you get home and forget how to do it, here are the directions:


1. bend the top of the hanger so it is closed
2. cut yarn six arms lengths long
3. glue the end of the yarn to the hanger...hold on a minute for it to stick
4. wrap, wrap, wrap, until you get to the end of the hanger.
5. put glue on the end of the wrapping to hold yarn in place

You may stop and change colors. Just glue again to stop and start.