Designing with everyday materials: Straws

Duration: 11

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1970

Creator: BAILEY FILM ASSOCIATES

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Art activities using straws provide opportunity to gain experience with balance, proportion, rhythm, and repetition in design. The film encourages students to respond to the creative possibilities of this inexpensive material and to use imagination in developing original ideas., Shows mobiles, large and small structures, figures of animals and plant forms, lacelike shapes, and flat compositions. Illustrates the flexibility and creative potential of the material and presents methods of shaping and joining.

Complete Record: Art activities using straws provide opportunity to gain experience with balance, proportion, rhythm, and repetition in design. The film encourages students to respond to the creative possibilities of this inexpensive material and to use imagination in developing original ideas., Shows how art activities using straws provide opportunitiy to gain experiences with balance, proportion, rhythm, and repetition in design. Demonstrates techniques for joining including threading, gluing, stapling, and weaving., , Shows mobiles, large and small structures, figures of animals and plant forms, lacelike shapes, and flat compositions. Illustrates the flexibility and creative potential of the material and presents methods of shaping and joining.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.