3rd Grade Animalito's

3rd Grade artists at Black Creek School created their own "Animalito's" using various supplies such as cardboard, toilet paper rolls, tape rolls, ect. We used tape to hold everything together and then plastered the final product. This was my first time using plaster for this project. The students seemed to enjoy it better than the paper mache, and loved knowing that plaster is like the plaster they use for cast's. We painted them using tempera paint, and then the next day we used Q-tips to add the dotted patterns. The dotted patterns are well known in the Oaxacan Animalito designs.

Alligator Animalito