1. Fantasy House
Fairytale: Hansel and Gretel

2. • Grade Level: 3rd grade
• Estimated Time: Three 2 hour sessions (3
days)
• 6 hours
total

3. Objective
• Students will be able to identify the
difference between realistic building
materials and fantasy building materials

4. Materials
• Newspaper
• Structure for the house
• (small cardboard box)
• Tape
• Glue
• Coloring Materials
• (markers, crayons, pastels, etc.)
• Other objects they choose to build their
fantasy house out of.
•
(paint, feathers, pasta. paperclips,

5. Vocabulary
• Reality- The world or the state of things as
they actually are.
• Fantasy- Imagining things that are
impossible or improbable.
• Installation Artist- Artistic genre of site-
specific, three- dimensional works designed
to transform the perception of space.

6. Procedure and Essential Questions
• Read Hansel and Gretal to the class and
after focus on the Witch's house.
• What is it made of?
• Can houses be made out of cookies and
candy?
• What are your homes made out of?

7. Procedure and Essential Questions
• Show Sandy Skoglund's "Raining Popcorn",
"The Cocktail Party", and "Shimmering
Madness"

8. Raining Popcorn

9. The Cocktail Party

10. Shimmering Madness

11. Procedure and Essential Questions
• What materials did Skoglund use to create
these scene?
• Were they fantasy or reality materials?
• How do you think she attached them to the
models, humans, walls, floor, etc.?

12. Guided Activity
• Give students index card witch pictures of
reality building materials and fantasy
building materials on them.
• With their groups have them sort the index
cards.
• Walk around to see if they are sorting the
cards correctly.
• After they are sorted, have each group
share one material from each category.

13. • Ask students to think about what they would
build their fantasy home out of if they could
choose any materials, fantasy, reality, or
both.
• Brainstorm with groups before starting the
project.

14. Art Project

15. Informal Evaluation
• Ask questions after the guided activity and
check while you are walking around to see if
everyone is understanding the difference
between the building materials.

16. Formal Evaluation

17. Resources
• http://www.sandyskoglund.com
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Sandy_Skoglund
• http://www.sandyskoglund.com/pages/
imagelist_fl/materials.html

18. THE END!
THE END!