Paper Mache Houses, Round 2: Christmas!

On Tuesday I started a second round of paper mache houses with the after school crew.  This time, we are doing holiday/Christmas/winter houses!  So far, they are turning out awesome again!  On Tuesday we painted the base coat and today we started adding decorations.  Pipe cleaners became wreaths, fences, and candy canes.  Pom poms became lights and snowmen!  I only wish the kids would get this creative with their other projects! (Sorry for the picture inundation!  I took my new camera to school today and couldn't stop snapping photos!)  These houses were purchased from eNasco, not built by students or myself.  Here is my previous post with the Halloween houses we made in October.

This one is mine...going for a gingerbread house look!

Love this one!  It turned out so cute!

Paper Mache Haunted Houses!

This last Tuesday and Thursday during After School, I had the kids make haunted houses!  I bought these paper mache houses from Nasco, I believe.  I pulled out all my scrapbook type paper, paint, pipe cleaners, pom poms, and fake spider webs and let the kids go to town!  They turned out AWESOME!  And, to top it all off...I have about 5 students left who wanted to work a 3rd day on them to add fences and such...I LOVE it when students tell me they WANT to work an extra day to add more details!

I LOVE the huge spider on this little house!

The kids even used hot glue guns without any accidents!  I'd say that's an achievement!

Afterwards, I had three houses left, so I brought them home and invited a fellow art teacher and friend over for a craft night and we decorated our houses with scrap booking paper!

I plan on adding some foam bats and possibly some pipe cleaner spiders...

The kids really enjoyed this so at Christmas time I will do this project again, but we will turn them into ginger bread houses!