Cardboard Sculptures

Sharing Messages

There is nothing like the joy of a child, and I'm so glad that this message made Saul so happy!

“A card! It’s a fire rainbow!” - Saul 
Remember you came up with that idea? - Elyse
“I came up with that idea, but there is a little bit of fire coming out.” - Saul 
“So you drawed this car.” - Saul 
Do you know what I used to make that card? - Elyse
“Watercolors and oil pastels. Like I did. Did you decide to make the picture for me?” - Saul
Yes, I did. I decided to draw one for you because it was your clever idea, and I wanted to share it with you. - Elyse

“Look at the famous park I built.” - Saul, 3.9 years

​What kind of materials did you bring? - Elyse
“Crumbly paper. I can crumble it.” - Saul

We briefly looked up some inspiration for cardboard sculptures. 

​​We even found a cardboard guitar that reminded us of Saul's guitar symbol.

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Someone made a telephone. Oh look! Someone made a guitar! - Elyse 
“How famous that is?” - Saul 

Making a plan

“I want to build a house.” - Saul 
One way you can do it is build it and figure out how you want it to be, and then glue it. Or, you can glue it as you build it. - Elyse 
“I’m making beautiful things to brush your teeth. Now I’m making something for brushing your teeth.” - Saul 
I’ve decided that I’m not going to use glue yet because then I can’t change my design. - Elyse
“I want to change my design.” - Saul 
Well, then I recommend waiting to use glue. - Elyse

“So, you want to see how we brush our teeth? Stuck them inside our mouth and then take them out so that these bad creatures won’t give us holes inside the teeth.” - Saul
“I’m thinking about things for brushing your teeth.” - Saul 
Are you making a cardboard tooth brush? - Elyse 
“No, we already have so many cardboard toothbrushes.  I’m putting them all inside of special boxes.  They are special because they have special things to brush their teeth.” - Saul 
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Making Choices and Revisiting Techniques and learning new ones 

That’s the thing about working with materials sometimes is you can make different choices.  None of them are right or wrong; it’s just a choice you have to make. - Elyse 
“If you want to think about choices, we have to put it inside our minds.  We have to put inside the choices of our mind and make them move. Inside of your minds are a lot of choices.” - Saul 
Choices or ideas are floating around our mind, and we just have to reach out and choose it. - Elyse
“Yeah, choose one.”  -Saul
We just have to choose which one we think is best. - Elyse

​Saul expressed interest in making cardboard circles.  Saul began to fold it to touch the ends together, and Naama offered him some tape to secure his circles.

Saul was having a bit of difficulty with getting a piece of cardboard to stay still and not slide in the glue.  With a reminder about "making feet" as we did with paper sculptures, he immediately began to fold his cardboard.

Have you tried making feet for it? Where you fold the edge? - Elyse
“Yeah, but how can we make an accordion? I’m doing it! I’m doing it!” - Saul

I shared a technique that I learned where you cut slits in cardboard and slide another piece in those slits. This way, you don't need glue.

Creating a park

“This is a park, and I need a gate to keep everyone inside.” - Saul

“This Is where people slide.” - Saul
“I made a double slide. It has two slides. That’s called a double slide.” - Saul 
How do you get to the top of the slide? - Elyse
“Like climb on this slide and then you slide down this [the other] slide.” - Saul
​“Look at the famous park I built.” - Saul

Can I show you my work? I made three types of bridges with water under them. - Elyse
“Where’s the water? I can’t see it.” - Saul 
Well, I used blue papers to make waves, curls to represent water, and even these blue triangles are meant to represent water. - Elyse