Bobble Head Doll Sculptures

Submitted by: Mary Jane Hadley
UNIT: Sculpture - Dolls - Paper Maché
Lesson: Bobble Head Dolls
Grade level: Elementary (Mary Jane did these with 4th grade)

Materials:

Two Little Hugs juice bottles, one cut 1 ½" (3.8 cm) down from the top (prepared by teacher with an X-acto Knife ahead of time), paper towels, Ross School Glue, Pipe Cleaners, ball of Plastilina Modeling Clay ½ of a 1" (2.5 cm) Styrofoam Ball, Gel Markers, Permanent Markers, Yarn Assortment trim, Glue Gun

 

Procedure:

1. Students will plan a design of a bobble-head doll on handout. This is important because the student has to plan the front, back, and side views because we are working on a 3-D form.

 

2. Wrap pipe cleaner around under top lip of the whole bottle. Paper Mache bottle (the body). Also paper maché the cut bottle (the head). Have paper maché go over lip of both bottles. Stick ball of plasticine clay in the bottom of the whole paper machéd bottle (so it doesn't fall over). The Ross art paste is for the paper mache. The half styrofoam ball attaches to the top of the spring to balance the head.

 

3. Draw in pencil first on inverted cut paper mached bottle- front, sides, and back of head using plan from worksheet. Go over lines with black sharpie.

 

4. Draw in pencil on whole paper machéd bottle- front, sides, and back of the body. They should include everything from the neck down to the shoes. Then black Sharpie.

 

5. Color in the designs with gel markers or permanent markers.

 

6. Add hair with yarn using a glue gun. Add other details with trims, Beads and anything you can think of.

Last year some of the students made animals that were hilarious. A monkey, mouse, horse (we had to add a shape on the front of the horses head that she paper machéd over).

 

Resources

As an anticipatory set you could show examples of actual bobble-heads of characters who you think students would like. See a few below:

• Yoda Bobble-head

• Barack Obama Bobblehead

• Darth Vader Bobblehead

• Spiderman Wacky Wobbler

• V for Vendetta Wacky Wobbler - A favorite for protesters...

• Wonder Woman Bobble Head