Art of Asia - Lantern Festival
Theme: Create a unique and symbolic lantern!
Theme: Create a unique and symbolic lantern!
Essential Questions:
1. What do lanterns symbolize?
2. By making your own lantern, what is your deepest hope to the world?
Materials: papers or colored papers( optional), scissors, rulers( optional), glue/ tape /staple／others( to connect parts together), found objects, recycle materials. Please do not ask your parents to get materials for you, you can make the lantern from anything! If you want to light the lamp (electronically, no flames), it depends on if you can find the right materials or not. Please clean your own mess!
Brainstorming /Get inspired: 30 minutes
Studio time: Create your own kind of lantern! 90 minutes
Google Classroom Assignment: Submit a slide
Slide 1: Cover page
Project title: Lantern Festival
Subtitle: Name and class code
Slide 2: Answer the essential questions
1. What do lanterns symbolize?
2. By making your own lantern, what is your deepest hope to the world?
Slide 3: Final artwork
Three pictures of the lanterns from different perspectives.
Steps:
1. Watch the following films.
This one is the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival in Taiwan
This one is the Lantern Festival in China.
2. There are ideas that you can get inspired from the following films:
3. Think about the symbolic meaning of your lantern and try to design the unique lantern with materials you can find in the house. Be meaningful, be functional and be safe!
See lanterns from online artists:
- It can be a found object lantern!
- The Lantern can be made through the combination of recycled materials
Lanterns made of recycled materials.
Lanterns made by paper cups.
