DDD Break time - Non-Digital Challenges

Can you draw a dog using only the letters in the word GLITTER? Submit a picture or video of your GLITTER dog.

Need a hint? See a video of how to do it here to get you started.

Can you build a tower, house, or castle out of cards? These can be playing cards from any game or even notecards, but no tape, staples, or other tricks can be used to help the cards stay in place. Submit a picture or video of your card structure. (put something or someone next to it to show its size)

Need a hint? Watch this short video on stacking cards. But this is only one method! How else can you stack up cards and get them to stay without using tape, glue, or staples?

This challenge comes from the de Young Museum! It was developed by Beth Krebs, a senior teaching artist.

What you'll need: assorted paper, colored pencils or pens, glue stick, scissor

Take a look at some ordinary objects from a bird’s eye view, especially objects you don’t typically see from that vantage point. Photograph or sketch them from that perspective. Trace the shape of the object you sketched onto other papers and cut them out. Build your collage, reinforcing existing lines and shapes on patterned paper while adding your “overhead shapes.” Feel free to experiment by putting together scraps from your cutouts to start a new idea.

What can you create?

After you have created it, please add your creation to our non-digital challenges form

This collage activity comes from the young collagists at Huerta Elementary School who were studying Romare Bearden.  They focused on the layering of the images to help tell the story of a personal memory. What story will your collage tell? 

What you'll need: old newspapers, magazines, pictures. Glue, paper or cardboard. 

Once done with your creation, please add it to our non-digital challenges form.

Here are some lesson plans so you can take it back to the classroom.