Artasia at St. Lawrence

Our week one activity, which was tinfoil and tape sculpture, yielded incredibly creative results. At first, the kids didn’t know how we could use such everyday items as tape and tinfoil to create sculptures, but as I started demonstrating how the materials could be used, they immediately began working on their own sculptures.

With the addition of colourful pipe cleaners and acrylic paint markers, their ideas truly flourished as they began adding colour and using the pipe cleaners to add texture and poseable elements to their pieces. One child used the materials to make a sculpture of a piece of paper and a pencil, cleverly layering the tape to make the piece of paper sturdy, and used a white acrylic paint marker to make the colour more accurate. Another kid made a car, with surprisingly accurate details like the shape and windows. There was also a child who liked experimenting with how the acrylic paint markers worked on the tape versus the tinfoil, and how the drying times varied.

Overall, the kids enjoyed exploring a new creative outlet that they could do using household materials they probably have at home. Many of the children expressed interest in continuing to experiment with the use of tinfoil as a sculptural material on their own time. 

– Sophie Hewitt