3D Play-Doh Creatures

For this project we learned the difference between 2D and 3D creatures. We also learned about Dr. Seuss and some of the characters he used in his stories. We began by creating our own Dr. Seuss characters out of a sheet of paper. We then learned how to create a 3D image by folding the construction paper. Then we were instructed to have items in our foreground, middle ground and background. We then used play-doh to create a character in the foreground and used pipe cleaner and fluffy balls to help create more images. I used them in my background to create trees. I created a penguin for my middle ground and a play-doh worm for my foreground. Then we also filled out the pre-made short story with the names of our characters and their actions, as well as what we had in each of our 3 levels.

An extension activity could be to go further into learn about 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional drawings or works of art. You could show the students examples of a 2 dimensional drawing and how adding more could create a 3 dimensional drawing.