Shamrocks!

I found this great project on Pinterest (where else? Haha). I figured I'd give it a go with my 6th graders today. To start, I introduced them to the idea of paper quilling by showing them examples from google. This amazed them. They had never seen or heard of paper quilling before. This project is obviously much easier than quilling, but it still have us the main idea of bending strips of paper into new and unique shapes. And for the sake of everyone's sanity, I had staplers on their tables so we didn't have to literally sit around and watch the glue dry. Lol. Here are some of our creations: