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LESSON
PAPER AND PLASTIC CRAFTS
Intended Learning Outcome:
Craft any recycled product using paper or plastic
materials.
Time Allocation: 5 hours

PREPARATION

Activity: Paper or
Plastic!
Instructions: Label the following crafts either plastic craft or paper craft. Write your
answer on the space provided.

1.
2.
3.

6.
5.

Guide questions:

1. What are the common wastes do you produce ate home?

2. Have you seen paper wastes at home? How about plastic
wastes?
3. Have you tried making crafts in your Elementary or High School Days?
4. What is your idea about recycling paper and plastic wastes?
 5. Can you create a craft made from paper or plastic wastes?
6. Why do you think is the importance of recycling paper and plastic
wastes?

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PRESENTATION

Paper craft is a collection of crafts using paper or card as the primary artistic medium for the
creation of two or three-dimensional objects. Paper and card stock lend themselves to a wide range
of techniques and can be folded, curved, bent, cut, glued, molded, stitched, or layered.
Papermaking by hand is also a paper craft.
For

Paper crafts are known in most societies that use paper, with certain kinds of crafts
being particularly associated with specific countries or cultures. In Caribbean countries paper
craft is unique to Caribbean culture which reflect the importance of native animals in life of people.
In addition to the aesthetic value of paper crafts, various forms of paper crafts are used in the
education of children. Paper is a relatively inexpensive medium, readily available, and easier to
work with than the more complicated media typically used in the creation of three-dimensional
artwork, such as ceramics, wood, and metals. It is also neater to work with than paints, dyes,
and other coloring materials. Paper crafts may also be used in therapeutic settings,
providing children with a safe and uncomplicated creative outlet to express feelings.

Types of Paper
Crafts:

•
 Scrapbookin
g
Cardmakin
g
Paper
Flowers
Decoupage
Papier-
mâché
Origam
i
3D Origami
Origat
a
Paper
Cutting
Quillin
g
Paper Making
Book Binding
Paper Layering
Paper Model

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Mondrian's concept of
"Neoplasticism".

What are the Plastic Arts?

Plastic arts are art forms which involve physical
manipulation of a plastic medium by molding or
modeling such as sculpture or ceramics. Less often
the term may be used broadly for all the visual arts
(such as painting, sculpture, film and photography),
as opposed to literature and music. Materials for use
in the plastic arts, in the narrower definition, include those
that can be carved or shaped, such as stone or wood,
concrete, glass, or metal. The term "plastic" has
been used to mean certain synthetic organic resins ever
since they were invented, but the term "plastic arts" long
preceded them. The term should not be confused, either, with
Piet

When we talk about plastic arts, we refer to the techniques of elaboration of works
of art in which materials and elements capable of being molded, modified or transformed by the artist
are used. These elements are therefore considered plastic resources, since they serve the artist as a
raw material to express his perspective, imagination or specific vision of the real. It is
very common for plastic artists, especially in the early exploration of their talent, to avoid
various plastic disciplines at the same time, since the plastic arts start from principles and
common aspects of each other, such as the form, the texture, color or even movement.

Plastic arts currently occupy one of the main

artistic areas of museums, and are, together
with the performing arts, literature, cinema, music and
photography, the greatest contemporary
expressions of art. The notion of plastic arts
emerged during the nineteenth century, as has
already been said, to distinguish them from the
performing arts. However, during the 20th
century the notion of art
art came
came into conflict and
reformulation so many times that the plastic arts
incorporated expressive proposals such as graffiti and urban art (street art) or the ready-
made heritage of pop-art.
 This last type of artistic objects, above all, that did not receive major intervention from the
of the term
artist, but were transferred by him to the museum and extracted from their context, forced the use
"visual arts" instead of "plastic arts", to accommodate them in this category. Video, photography
and digital art, that way, also had a place in it.
The plastic arts are ordinarily classified into:

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Painting. The most classic of all, along with sculpture, this discipline uses chromatic
substances obtained through various mechanisms to apply color on a smooth white surface, known as
canvas, to create with these colors a realistic or abstract representation of reality.
Sculpture. This discipline uses the artist's hands, as well as various tools, to mold,
cut, polish and, in short, give a certain shape to durable elements, such as stones of
different nature, or moldable materials that then harden, such as plaster.
Goldsmith. It involves the elaboration of artistic pieces through the manipulation and
melting of metals, in particular precious metals such as gold or silver.
Drawing. The technique consists in representing the perspectives of the visible to
the naked eye or of the imaginary by means of strokes on a paper that are made with pencil, charcoal,
ink or some other material that leaves marks.

Recorded. Similar to the drawing, the engraving prints gestures, letters or other symbols
on a surface, but in this case a hard and resistant as rolled metals.

Ceramics. Similar to the sculpture, it prints form (and eventually color) to a mass of a
moldable or malleable element, then naturally or in a furnace extract the water component and, when
drying, harden it and make it rigid and bright.
Crafts. This is called the technique of producing simple objects or containers, for
everyday use, using flexible materials and simple tools, often the artist's hand.

Characteristics of the plastic

arts
As stated before, the plastic arts share certain basic concepts that determine their particular
 way of expressing their contents, and which are:
Color. The colors are given to the works of art through pigments and materials that,
when impacted by white light, absorb all the tones of the rainbow
except one. This reflected color is what our retinas perceive.
Shape. The form has to do with the geometry of things, with their
regularity or irregularity, with their limits visible to the naked
eye. Texture. The texture is appreciable by touch or sight, and has
to do with the surface of the objects: its roughness or smoothness,
its edge or the sensations transmitted by its outer layer.

Movement. In some cases, the plastic works can have movement, as is the case of artists such
as the Argentine Julio LeParc, whose sculptures could be activated by electricity to transmit hypnotic
shapes and colors to the viewer.

Importance of Recycling Paper and Plastic

Wastes

Recycling paper helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that can contribute
to climate change. It takes 70% less energy and water to recycle paper than to create new
paper from trees. Manufacturing with recovered paper cuts down on pollution that contributes
to smog (and ill health).

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It has a number of important benefits: It saves waste paper from occupying homes
of people and producing methane as it breaks down. Because paper fibre contains carbon
(originally absorbed by the tree from which it was produced), recycling keeps the carbon
locked up for longer and out of the atmosphere.

Recycling plastics takes 88% less energy than

making plastic from raw materials while helping reducing
fossil fuel consumption; Diverting discarded plastics from the
refuse stream and turning them into new goods keeps these
persistent materials out of landfills and the natural
environment.

Recycling of plastics is essential in today's world.

Plastic, being a non-biodegradable material, takes several
decades to degrade enough to be reused again. Recycling
and chemically treating plastic for reuse are a better means to protect the environment from
plastic pollution that allowing it to contaminate the Earth.

Plastic bags, bottles, containers, and so on can be seen polluting the oceans of the
world and are causing a significant ecological hazard. By recycling plastic for daily use, awareness of
plastic landfills, sea fills, and environmental issues can be spread and controlled. The
more people that are open to using recycled plastic products, the better it will be for the world.

PRACTICE

Individual Activity: Video

Demonstration

Instructions: Watch the videos on how to perform the paper and plastic crafts. Identify
the steps being used in the video. Prepare the materials to be used in this demonstration.
Watch the videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfnyopxdJXQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Omz5uGrgq44

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PERFORMANCE

Individual Output: Project Making

Instructions: Craft your own project output. Choose either paper or plastic craft utilizing
the different techniques. Make sure to document your output activities through a video as part of
the requirements. You will be graded according to the following criteria.

DESCRIPTION
MARKS
(%)
Score

25
Selection of Materials

Appropriate for
project
Color combination

Texture and shapes

used
Originalit
y
Capture attention
25

Shows imaginative use of materials and

ideas

Quality of Workmanship
Neatness
25
 Good use of technique
Overall Presentation

• Design related to intended use

Appropriately
finished
25

Balance, harmony at first impression

TOTAL
100

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ASSIGNMENT

Individual Output: Take a picture of you with your created craft. Paste that in our padlet. Write a short
description of your design.

Paste Your Picture Here!

Disclaimer: Pictures, videos, and some text/content used in this module are not solely owned
by the writer. Credits to the rightful owner. This material is created for educational purposes only.

References:

[42] https://whatmaster.com/what-are-the-plastic-
arts/ [43] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper craft
[44]
https://bit.ly/3r3nlSF
[45] https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=KfnyopxdJXQ [46]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omz5uGrgq44
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