When I was younger, paper chains were it! If anything needed decorating, be it a tree or a window or a house for someone's birthday, paper chains were this girl's go to decorating method. It's fun, repetitious and keeps kids busy. It's also a good way to learn about patterns.
I showed my students how to make them and asked them what different types of patterns they could make with just two colors. They had fun coming up with all the variations - "orange, white, white, orange!" or "white, white, white, orange, orange, orange, white, white, white!" Once they got the hang of it, they couldn't stop. Some sat at the art table for almost the entire hour adding link after link, asking each other "is mine longer than yours?" Ahh competition.
materials:
glue stick
paper cut into strips (you can get wild and use more than two colors if you so desire)
get to work:
1. Put a little bit of glue at one end of a strip and connect the ends, making an O.
2. Run the next strip through the O and repeat step one.
3. Repeat, repeat, repeat!
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