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Course: The Metropolitan Museum of Art > Unit 2
Lesson 4: Create art- Weave on a mini loom
- Draw and ink comic panels
- Create a flip book
- Trace and cut paper silhouettes
- Pose like a sculpture
- Make a symmetrical print
- Make a photogram
- Make a mixed-up beings book
- Draw with an eraser
- Create scratch art
- Create an optical toy: Thaumatrope
- Create a collage
- Design a fashion accessory: Fancy cuffs
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Create an optical toy: Thaumatrope
Follow along with Durga, age 11, and learn how to make a thaumatrope, an optical toy that was popular in the 1800s.
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#metkids create The Metropolitan Museum of Art Create an Optical Toy
Thaumatrope trace a circle and cut it out punch two holes draw one element on first side flip circle from bottom to top draw a related element string a rubber band
through each hole and loop pull rubber bands tight spin circle back and forth watch your two drawings become one! get inspired by <i>Lady With Her Pets
(Molly Wales Fobes)</i>, 1790 Rufus Hathaway ♪ <i>(Kevin MacLeod,
"Fig Leaf Times Two")</i> ♪ YOUR TURN! Materials: card stock, pencil or pen,
roll of masking tape, plastic lid, or another circular shape
to trace, scissors, hole punch, two rubber bands ♪ (music) ♪