I finally got in gear this year. All in all, I decided I liked the idea of doing bottle cap murals every other year. It is such a huge, time consuming project that it just makes more sense not to do it every year. With the new format, I included both 4th and 5th grade students.
I run this mural as a side project for early finishers at the beginning. After compiling several of the best sketches, I drew out the design on the boards that students had primed. Over the course of a couple of weeks, students paint the background with latex house paint. They then clean up paint edges with a super thick black marker once all of the painting is finished. At that point, the mural is ready for caps. I have each table of students help apply caps using a hot glue gun. When a board is finished, I screw in the caps with these screws. Luckily I had lots of help with the screws this year because my contact at the library recruited her staff to lend a hand.
4 comments:
I still need to screw the mural we made last spring down...why did you choose those screws over others?
When I first did this project five years ago, I was working from a book about bottle cap art written by a local artist named Michelle Stitzlein (google her if you want) who was one of the first to really start making artwork with bottle caps popular. Those are the screws that she recommended, so that's what I used.
They are different from regular screws because they are self-tapping. They essentially have a drill on the tip so you don't need to pre-drill holes for the screws.
What surface did you use to make your mural on?
I just use plywood sheeting. It's $13 for a 4'x8' sheet at Lowe's.
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