Who doesn't love Dale Chihuly's mesmerizing glass works!?! I think we are all amazed by his glass masterpieces.
My kids watched a great video of Dale Chihuly creating art with his team.
My kids barely blink because they are so memorized by his the process.
The video really helped them to understand the glass making process and it's transformation.
1. We collected clear water bottles from the school.
2. Clean and cut off the bottoms.
3. Paint the inside with warm and cool colors.
4. Students cut all the dried bottles
5. We used a heat gun to melt the bottles and stretch them out
6. We used wire to twist together 3 bottles (where the neck of the cap is)
7. Then we twisted the wire onto a long metal piece (from Lowes which is used for closets-about $12)
*Make sure the wire is tight on the bottles and on the metal piece.
Slowly we put everything together. Warm colors on top and cool colors on the bottom.
My maintenance guy was wonderful and made this special metal piece for our chandelier to hang from so it would meet the fire code.
Ta-Da!!
It's lightweight and about as tall as me 5'6".
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It was great surprising the staff and students with it! My fifth graders were very proud of themselves. And I really loved that is was made with recycled plastic and was inexpensive to make.
