Sometimes all you have are the basics. Here's some projects you can pull out to keep the kids entertained while on the go. You should also check out Easy Origami for more paper projects.
Three-Person Picture: The first person in each group begins by drawing the head and neck of a real or imaginary figure on the top one-third of the paper. When done, they fold the paper back so that nothing can be seen of their drawing except a few lines that will allow the next person to continue the figure. The drawing is folded once again, passed along and finished by the final player, who then unfolds the paper to reveal the entire kookie creature!
Seeing Green: At a table, players cut several shamrocks out of red construction paper and pas them onto a larger sheet of white paper. Large shamrocks are more effective. Players should stare at the red shamrocks while slowly counting to fifteen. Once done the players flip over the paper s and now stare at the plain white side of the sheet. After a few seconds, players will see a ghostly image of a green shamrock, rather than a red one. This can also be done with different colors. Green turns into red, orange turns to blue, etc. Use this as a lesson in the color wheel and try to make a rainbow! Or make the American flag!Michelangelo Painted on the Ceiling: In elementary school I had "Art on a Cart", which is a fancy way of saying that there was no art room so the teacher had to come to the classroom. Still, she was able to find creative ways to teach us. One example that would be fun to do: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. 600 years ago he painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling in Rome, Italy. It took 5 years to finish it! In order to reach the chapel's ceiling, Michelangelo designed his own scaffold, a flat wooden platform on brackets built out from holes in the wall near the top of the windows, rather than being built up from the floor which would have involved a massive structure. He had to spend a lot of time on his back, looking up to paint the ceiling. Tape some paper to the bottom of a table and try drawing like Michelangelo.
