Activity 9: Pencil Shavings Art

Are you tired of finding pencil shavings all over the floor, the bed, under the bed, inside school bags, stuck to sofas … and any other places? Start some pencil shaving art projects at home. You will find that your child now saves up the pencil shavings carefully for use in such projects. Presto! No more pencil shavings all over the place.

Materials required:

Pencil shavings

Colour paper

Glue

Scissors

Activity:

1. Cut out a shape for the child to stick the pencil shavings on. This could be a tree shape as shown in the image. Alternatively, you could cut out the body of a butterfly and stick the pencil shavings for the wings, or you could draw leaves and have the pencil shavings as the petals of flowers. Or draw the stick figure of a girl and use the pencil shavings to make her dress.

2. Spread glue over the area where the pencil shavings should be, and leave the child to stick the shavings. You could stick a couple of them on, as an example for them to follow.

3. Stick the final picture on a piece of colour paper and write a suitable quote or message. We chose ‘save trees’ as we have been discussing how useful trees are to us.

Extra:

Encourage your child to think about different drawings that could be used in such projects. For example, pencil shavings can be the hair on the drawing of a face, or gills on a fish-shaped cut out.

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