Bean Mosaics Continued

Day 2: Review and reflect on day 1. 
Show examples.  Have students sketch their idea onto cardboard.

Provide cardboard, crayons, glue, a variety of beans and peas, and paint brushes for students.

I used muffin tins to separate the beans.  Keeping the beans separate was a challenge! 

 

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Bean Mosaics

Day 1: Exploration

Provide bean trays & felt 

Demonstrate placing beans one by one onto felt to create a line then a shape. Let students explore. 

You will notice that when I introduce a material there is usually one class of complete exploration.  I do not have them glue anything down at this stage.  I want them to get ideas from each other, to try new things and to explore different possibilities.