Corn-dinsky, Kandi-copia and Rubik's Corn!

Corn-dinsky, Kandi-copia and Rubiks Corn!

Our final Fall project was on based on shape. I decided to use the artist Kandinsky as our first inspiration and with the oldest boys, the ever-present (put it away during class) Rubik’s Cube.

Most of the classes did a project with late harvest corn. This was the Corn-dinsky group.  The kids were given three corn shaped white cardstock pieces of paper that were already divided into squared sections. The kids were told to begin filling in the squares with markers in browns, yellows, oranges and reds with circles one inside the other. I have to say, it was a commitment to color all of the squares in and it took a lot of time, but once the stalks were attached and tied at the top, they looked amazing.

The second group…Kandi-copia filled in a cornucopia to the brim with gifts of the harvest…including our Corn-dinsky corn!

The final group harvested Rubik’s Corn. After I demonstrated how to make a three dimensional cube, the boys filled in the squares in solid blocks, or patterns in the primary Rubik’s cube colors in various stages of completing the puzzle. They finished it off by coloring in the corn stalks around it in different shades of green.

Skills required

Formation of concentric circles

Choosing colors

Formation of 3-D cubes

Layering of cornucopia contents