What do you do when you have 400 jewel cases from old music CD's? Take the to the school for an Art class assignment. This assignment was part of our Mixed-Media Unit and came after I finally got my students to use up the cardboard from my discarded boxes. Dick Blick has a great Glass Book project, that I borrowed, and my students enjoyed the process.
We started by disassembling the CD cases: removing both sides, the inner, circular part that actually holds the CD, and the paper. The only part that we actually used from each box was the clear square that didn't have little arms for the hinge. There are little holes on the top and bottom of each of these, that will go on the sides. Once you have four of these, you can use little pieces of wire to attach them together. The two side will close in on each other, like little boxes, and the center wires have to bee a little longer so that the hinge will fold back on itself so that the final product folds back and forth accordion style to make a "W" shape.
Students either had to write or find a short poem or song lyric that is between 4-8 lines. These were cut into strips and decoupaged on to the bottom of each "page", and then they cut paper or drew with paint pens on each square to illustrate the words.
Part of the assignment was to create a sense of depth by intentionally layering in a way that created a foreground, middle ground and back ground when the images were stacked. Some times, even tissue paper was on the back of the last page with something on the front of that page. Snowflakes and Cherry Blossoms were made in various sizes to show so that smaller shapes appeared to be further away than the larger, up close ones. This project was a great way to incorporate literature, learn some assembly and decoupage skills, and understand how to create a sense of depth in visual art.
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