A few weeks ago, my supervisor shared a cool idea for a Makerspace on her WCPS Library Media Programs Facebook Page - it was a large piece of mosaic artwork made from stickers by the company Stick Together. These pieces of artwork are a stick-by-number mosaic. They provide the blank paper with the outlines and a lettered grid. The enclosed stickers are small, approximately 1/2" square each. I contacted the company about doing a custom photo of a cougar since our Mascot is a cougar, but the price was cost prohibitive for my budget. Instead I selected Van Gogh's Starry Night. It looks like this: The total picture is 60" x 36" - quite large! When it arrived, I hung it up with some directions: The stickers are color coded but not marked on the sticker pages, so I added them to folders to keep them organized and cut down on sticker misuse/waste: I also only put out one color at a time for students to work on. It helped keep disagreements to a minimum. We started with black because Starry Night has a LOT of black in it. Within just a few minutes, I had students wanting to sticker. They LOVED it! Over the next few weeks, many students and staff got in on the stickering action! According to the Stick Together website, it should take 5-8 hours of continuous stickering to finish a picture of this size. It took my students about 3 weeks total, and it was really fun to watch it change every day. Here's the finished piece: Doesn't it look AMAZING? I'm so proud of them! Now that we finished the first one, my students are asking when the next one will be hung up... I'm feeling like it might be time to order some sunflowers! Or maybe some hot air balloons!!
How would you use this in your classroom or Makerspace? Comment below!
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Kim
11/29/2016 08:02:12 am
Love your directions and your idea about putting only one color out at a time. We did the tiger and did NOT tell the students what it was going to be. Instead, we encouraged them to guess which was a lot of fun too.
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Alice Reinert
7/19/2017 11:20:55 am
I'm thinking about trying this during National Picture Book Month (November) and each time a student reads a picture book he/she could put a sticker on the mosaic. It could be a way for our school to track the number of picture books read. Last year we read 3500, so this would be an increase in our goal and hopefully a motivator for the students!
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