At Your Fingertips: Cylinders

Designed to help children become aware of the creative possibilities of the cylindrical shape. Using readily available materials found in the home--rollers from paper towels, toilet tissue, and cylindrical containers such as salt boxes--children build totem poles, rockets, and an assortment of playthings. With cutout paper additions fastened to the tube, they construct models of animals. By joining the found cylinders together with brads, they create free-form sculpture which can be place in a variety of ways to achieve different effects. Tubes are also used to make hanging screens., Explores the creative possibilities children can build from household materials, such as totem poles, rockets, animals and free-form sculptures with rollers from paper towels, cardboard cylinders and salt boxes.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.