Paper Tube Sculptures
Paper Tube Sculptures
Paper Tube Sculptures
- piece of cardboard
- ruler
- markers or crayons
- glue
grocery store.
Using the width of a ruler, (about 1 Decorate your paper sections with cut your paper into strips along the
1/4 inch width) as a guide make a marker or crayon or colored pencil. pencil line. we are going to roll the
series of lines across your paper. Even if you only have a black ink pen, paper around a pencil. At the length of a
Make certain the lines are straight and that is still going to look great. pencil, I cut some off. It turns out to be
you do not make them smaller than about 2/3 of the width of the paper. You
what you can roll around pencil. can use the shorter pieces too it you
like.
Before you roll the entire way, stop Hold down with the seam
Using both hands roll the top of the and add a tiny amount of glue underneath the pencil.
paper around the longest pencil along the edge. I do this with a count to 15
you can find.
paintbrush. you can also use the
tip of a pencil. do not get glue on
the pencil or the paper tube will not
easily slide off.
gently slip the paper tubes Once you have all the Begin to assemble using a LOW
off the pencil paper tubes for a project TEMPERATURE HOT GLUE GUN.
let them dry for about 20 Never use a hot temperature hot
minutes to become glue gun. It will be too hot for the
stronger. You can even let paper and you will likely burn
them dry overnight and yourself. You will need to hold each
paper tube in place for a minute or
two. I like to make a tripod 3 tubes
to begin with because the triangle is
the strongest shape.
Once I am finished with my
Sculpture, I like to add people or
animals to give it scale.
Jennifer.schiel@slcschools.org