1. Docent Material & Setup List: Docent Clean up List:
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Docent Material & Setup List:
Docent Clean up List:
Give each student:
Make sure names are on paper(s)
Place completed art work on drying racks – remember to label with teachers name
Wipe down tables, refill any items and return to bins as you found them
Close the lens cap to turn the projector off
Send to parents about the lesson – thanks for doing this and leading the lesson!
Paper
Pencil
Blue paper
Paint brush (for glue)
Toothpick
Straw
Circle Sizing laminate
Give each table:
Basket of Quilling papers (white strips of pre cut paper a handful per table should be enough)
Paint brush (for glue)
3 x small amounts of Quick Drying Tacky Glue (1 bottle is more than enough for a class)
Docents don't be intimidated by this lesson, it is very easy but practice a little before the lesson.
We have several samples up on the wall to refer students too. Note how each is different – that is our goal of this lesson.
Docents there are step by step slides on how to execute the practical part of the lesson. I do not recommend showing these slides, instead encourage them to make 6 of each shape as a minimum.
Students much make at least 6 tight rolls, 6 teardrops and 6 eye/marquise rolls. Please use the laminate to get a sense of size each should be.
To get the tear drops and the marquise rolls – gently release the paper roll and let is expand then glue the end. The opposite for tight rolls which by definition need to be help tight and glued in place. The size does not really matter as long as they roughly uniform in size. Last year we found it helpful to have a shared pool of quilled rolls for students to pull from once they had mastered the technique.
Please don’t forget to come back and put your art work away once its dried – thank you!

2. Quilling - Snowflake Art@Booksin
Welcome in the students. State the lesson name. This lesson is a curriculum linked lesson. Teachers asked for a lesson that incorporates snowflakes.

3. Today’s Lesson Skill Development:
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Today’s Lesson
Skill Development:
Today’s lesson builds upon your knowledge of snowflakes
Introduction to quilling techniques to make rolls;
Tight circle
Teardrop
Eye / Marquise
Use of patterns to create repetition and movement
Today you are going to create your own snowflake using quilling paper.
This is a Curriculum linked lesson
Explain the lesson objective and description

4. What are snowflakes? Quilling snowflakes
Snowflakes start high in the atmosphere as ice crystals that freeze around small pieces of dust in the air. As they fall to the earth, the ice crystals join together to form snowflakes.
The shape of each snowflake is determined by temperature, wind, the amount of time it takes to fall to the ground, and the amount of water vapor in the air.
Snowflakes are six‐sided because water molecules have six sides and tend to grow in six directions.
No one has ever found two snowflakes that are exactly alike, but because they are crystals they do exhibit a regular structure.
Ask the students – Have a short discussion around what snowflakes are, does anyone how may types there are?

5. Who is Wilson Bentley? Quilling snowflakes
Starting in 1885, Bentley photographed more than 5000 snow crystals.
Within his massive collection every single snowflake was unique, he published Snow Crystals, a volume containing 2,300 of his photographs for all to study and enjoy
Who is Wilson Bentley?
Photographs are an art form. Mr. Wilson Bentley pioneered a technique known as photomicrography. He took more than 5000 snow crystals. A large part of his collection is available to view at the Smithsonian.

6. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ‘The Hunters in the Snow’, 1565
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Docents next 3 slides show 3 very different styles and art periods. Ask students how many activities they see going on?
How does this painting show Distance? The people at the front (foreground) are much bigger than those in the distance (background) yet ALL are carefully painted.
In Holland during the winter months the canals and rivers would often freeze over and people would enjoy skating on them. Brueghel painted may scenes' like this and of adults and children playing together having fun.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ‘The Hunters in the Snow’, 1565

7. Claude Monet 'The Magpie’, 1869
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Docents here are some other famous artworks of snow scenes, please use to your comfort level.
The Magpie is an impressionistic winter landscape painting by Claude Monet. It was painted in the winter of near Etretat, Normandy, France. Monet would eventually paint 140 winter landscapes. The Magpie is his largest winter work at 35 inches by 51 inches in size. The extremely innovative painting was initially rejected. A pale, snowy landscape in bright afternoon sun with stark shadows stretches across the canvas. The foreground is entirely snow and shadows. In the mid-ground is a wattle fence with a thick layer of snow. On the far left, a magpie perches on a stile that stretches over the fence. In the background is a long, pale tan brick building partly obscured by winter trees. Like many Impressionistic paintings, when viewed from a distance it has an almost photo-realistic quality. Up close the brush strokes and overall design is very soft. SOURCE:
Claude Monet 'The Magpie’, 1869

8. Wassily Kandinsky, "Winter Landscape," 1909
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This oil on cardboard painting is one of the works in which the individualities of the artist, Kandinsky being the founder of abstract art, are shown in the full extent. The motive of thin black trunks is often used by Kandinsky in his landscapes. Bright coloring with dominant pink, yellow, blue and black is based on immediate visual impressions: the author seeks to convey various light effects in the snow lit by the setting sun; and the spatial depth of the landscape is emphasized with the composition. SOURCE:
Wassily Kandinsky, "Winter Landscape," 1909

9. What is the art of Quilling?
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What is the art of Quilling?
Paper Quilling is using rolled up pieces of paper to make Art.
It started as a hobby for nuns and priests. They would cut the edges from the pages of books and create art from them.
In the 16th and 17th century's high quality quilling was produced by nuns in France and Italy. In the 18th century it became popular with women from wealth and royalty. It was not a working class art.
Today quilling is a hobby around the world… people use quilling to create wedding invitations, ornaments, or just Art for fun.
Today we are going to create our own snowflake using an art technique know as quilling. Have a short discussion around what quilling is and how beautiful art pieces can be created using curled paper. Please encourage students to try their best but not being perfect is what makes art special.

10. Quilling snowflakes
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11. How to build your snowflake:
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How to build your snowflake:
Write your name on the back of the paper
Build out your snowflake, using the guidelines. As a minimum you need to make
6 x Teardrop
6 x eye/ Marquise
6 x Tight circles
Be creative – this is your version remember that every snowflake is unique!
Docents don't be intimidated by this lesson, it is very easy but practice a little before the lesson.
Here is the step by step on how to build this art piece taken from a YouTube (this one is my preference not just because of the accent, its well explained) In this one I broke out the steps above. Note I have them being made in a different order than the youTube to start with the easiest roll.
We have several samples up on the wall to refer students too. Note how each is different – that is our goal of this lesson.
Docents there are step by step slides on how to execute the practical part of the lesson. I do not recommend showing these slides, instead encourage them to make 6 of each shape as a minimum. Please use the laminate to get a sense of size each should be.
To get the tear drops and the eye/ marquise rolls – gently release the paper roll and let is expand then glue the end. The opposite for tight rolls which by definition need to be help tight and glued in place. The size does not really matter as long as they roughly uniform in size. Last year we found it helpful to have a shared pool of quilled rolls for students to pull from once they had mastered the technique.

12. How to make a tight circle roll:
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How to make a tight circle roll:
Roll paper tightly around cocktail stick.
Remove from stick
Hold together on table
Gently glue keeping it tightly wound
Repeat x 6
Make sure this is wound tightly around the toothpick. Hold tight until glue tacked paper tightly.

13. How to make a Teardrop roll:
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How to make a Teardrop roll:
Roll paper tightly around straw.
Remove from straw
Let open slightly on table, use the laminate as a size guideline
Gently pull one side and make a point end (like one side of an eye or teardrop.
Repeat x 6

14. How to make an eye / marquise roll:
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How to make an eye / marquise roll:
Roll paper tightly around straw.
Remove from straw
Let open slightly on table and let expand, use the laminate as a size guideline
Gently pull each side and make a point end (like an eye)
Repeat x 6

15. Quilling snowflakes
Using your paint brush paste glue to join your 6 marquise rolls as shown.

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Using your paint brush paste glue where you would like to attach your snowflake on your blue paper (if not already done so).
DO NOT put glue on the blue paper but on the white snowflake and press it onto the blue paper to adhere.
Leave to dry. Docents have the option to carefully modge podge the final snowflake at it makes it super strong.
There is a second YouTube which is also great but there is no dialogue In this one they make different quilling shaped rolls - eye/marquise, 6 open hearts and 6 v scrolls.

17. Lesson plan adapted from YouTUBE – new lesson as tied to curriculum on snowflakes
By Tara Button
October 2015, updated Sept 2017