Mrs. Cambria's Art Room

Model Magic Polar Bears

Materials:

- one small package of white model magic for each student

-permanent markers

Chelsey, Alyvia, Danny, Allie, Leah and Strat

Polar Bears Overview: Not all classes got to make these polar bears. Only the classes that earned it by getting 80 points in my star reward system. Here’s how my star sysem works: each class can earn up to 5 behavioral points, or stars, in a week. When a class gets to 80 stars they get to make model magic polar bears. This year only about half the classes in the school earned 80 stars.

Kylee, Porter, Karina, Zach and Lilly

1- Roll your whole clump of model magic into a ball.

2- Split your ball into two equal parts. Set one aside until step 4.

3- Spit one of the balls into two unequal parts, one should be about one third the size of the other. Roll these two parts into balls. One will become the head and the other will be the body.

4- Take the biggest ball, the one we did not split apart in the last step, and pinch a small piece off. This should be about one fourth the size of the head, it will become the nose.

5- Take the ball that will become the head and connect the nose ball to it, then pinch two small round ear shapes into the top. Your head is done for now, you’ll draw the eyes and mouth on with a marker later.

6- Take the medium ball, or the body piece, and roll it into an elongated sphere, like a big pill.

7- Connect the head to the body shape.

8- Now we’re going to make 4 legs out of the large ball that is left over. First, split it in half. Second, take those halves and split them both in half. You should have four equal parts, roll them into balls.

9- Roll these balls into long pill shapes for the short legs of the bear.

10- Attach the legs to the bear’s body in whatever pose you want your bear to be in.

11- Once your bear is all put together, pinch a short tail shape out of the bottom.

12- Draw the face and the paws onto your bear with permanent markers.

12- Write your initials on the bottom and put your bear onto the shelf where we’ll have it sit for a week while it drys out