2nd Graders were doing Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, for their read aloud book. I wanted to do something with it for art, because it's so fanciful and I hoped it would get their little imaginations in gear. (Boy, was I right.) Although, I didn't photograph any, I started by having students design packages for their own candy. Students dreamed up Candy that made you invincible, Candy that made you grow hair all over your body, Candy that made you turn into someone else, and on and on and on. One student, had a brilliant idea to build a pocket onto her drawing so that when she got home she could put real candy inside her package and then pretend it was the real make-believe candy!
For the second part of the assignment, I had students do architectural drawings of what their factory could look like. For inspiration I showed the students some videos that show how candy is really made.
For some reason lots of kids wanted to add a parking lot.
Notice Willy Wonka in his hat.
Instead of having a glass elevator this student decided to make a rocket instead.
Lots of students wanted to make their factories bigger! So they got together with their friends and taped all of their drawings together. It was hard to get good photos of these because they got so big.
