Coffee Filter Flowers

This past Friday the third graders continued to learn about positive and negative space. Using coffee filters, beads and marbles, markers, and pipe cleaners the students created a beautiful bouquet of flowers. (click on any photo to view it larger)

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First they inserted a bead or marble into the coffee filter and secured it with a pipe cleaner. Next, they used different markers to color the coffee filter.

Until it looked something like this.

Finally, they removed the marbles and beads to reveal an interesting design on the once white filter. After making three filters, the children placed them on top of one another and secured the "petals" with a pipe cleaner to make one flower.

Ultimately, a wonderful bouquet was made!