Paper Quilling Art Project

Title: Multicultural Lesson “Cock-a-doodle-doo, Kuku Ryku” from Poland
or Quilling Insects and their environment
Grades: 1-4
History/Background:
Polish decorative arts use of cut paper is called wycinanki (vee-chee-nahn-kee). The spirit of Poland’s enthusiasm for life is expressed in strong ethic pride and respect for family traditions. One of the most popular themes in wycinanki is the crowing rooster. The roster symbolizes vitalility, productivity and renewal. A healthy rooster is a blessing. The egg is a symbol of rebirth all over the world.

Standards: 9.1 Arts and Humanities, Production of Visual Arts
9.2 Historical and Cultural Contexts
8.4 World History

Goal: To create a creature, whether a rooster or bug, out of paper by cutting,
gluing, and quilling paper.

Objectives: 1. Students will create a completed paper creature.
2. Students will learn how to quill paper into scrolls.
3. Students will recognize that the rooster is popular in
Polish wycinanki.
4. Students will use template to make rooster or creature, make and glue at least 10 quills, decorate head, feet and base.

Resource materials/Visual Aids: Photos of roosters, teaching board, my exemplar

Supplies/Materials:1.Template of rooster
2. Railroad paper of many colors
3. Scissors
4. Elmer’s Glue
5. Smock/apron
6. Origami paper
7. Toothpicks/or unsharpened pencils

Teacher Preparation: Create teaching boards, cut rooster template out of oak tag before class, cut Origami paper into ½ inch long strips with paper cutter

Teaching Instruction: Polish decorative arts use of cut paper is called wycinanki (vee-chee-nahn-kee). Repeat after me “vee-chee-nahn-kee”. The polish tradition of wycinanki is symmetrical design. The spirit of Poland’s enthusiasm for live is expressed in strong ethic pride and respect for family traditions. One of the most popular themes in wycinanki is the crowing rooster. He doesn’t say “cock-a-doodle-doo” but “kuku ryku” in polish. The rooster crows every morning to the sun to mark a new day. The roster symbolizes vitality, productivity and renewal. A healthy rooster is a blessing. The egg is a symbol of rebirth all over the world. Did you know the polka dot originates from the Polish polka dance costumes?
We are going to make out own roosters out of paper by rolling paper into paper scroll quills. Don’t they look like feathers?

Directions: DAY 1-
1. Use a template to trace the shape of the rooster and base on the heavy stock paper, Railroad paper.******Make a mark where the cut line is.
2. Cut out the rooster and the base with scissors.
3.Put name on both the rooster and the base in small print on the bottom edge in pencil.
4. Roll origami paper strips provided on the toothpick, one piece of paper at a time. Create at least 10 in different colors.
5. Put Elmer’s glue in the size of a pea on the rooster’s tail end and place one quill per pea size of glue.

DAY 2-
1. Decorate the head, chest and feet of the rooster using the paper scraps provided.**** Remember not to cover the cut mark.
2. Make a cut into the base strip, half the width of the base in the middle.
3. Make a cut into the bottom of your rooster ½ inch deep- refer to the make you made when you traces the rooster.
4. If your rooster is dry, put the base on the rooster. Voila!!!! Kuku-ryku or cook-a-doodle-doo!!!!

Extension: Cut eggs, birds or feather out of origami paper. Create a design on a postcard.

Critique/Evaluation: Criteria: Did the student follow the directions, have at least 10 quills, have a base with their name? Did they try to say the polish word wycinanki?

See attached Rubric

Time Budget: 2 class periods of 45 minutes each

Vocabulary: Wycinanki (vee-chee-nahn-kee) - Polish decorative arts use of cut paper, which is symmetrical.

Symmetrical- a design that is balanced and has the same elements on each side

Safety concerns: review scissor safety

Bibliography/References: Susan Rodriguez’s Culture Smart book,
website “www.google.com, images, Wycinanki as search word