1. Take the letter template given to you and cut it out neatly to where you can use the rest of the paper from which you have cut the letter out from as a stencil. Throw away the cut out letter. Get any type of tape and have two half-inch strips ready to use. Take the 8 ½” by 11” template paper that you cut the letter out from, and tape it onto a bathroom mirror from the top two corners of the paper. Holding your left hand on the bottom of the paper to hold it securely, spray a good amount of hairspray inside the stencil letter. Take the paper off the mirror and throw it away. Take a lighter and light the hairsprayed portion of the mirror on fire. Quickly take a picture.
2. Take the letter template given to you and neatly cut it out. Place letter onto cardboard and trace the letter onto the cardboard with a pencil. Cut the letter out of the piece of cardboard. Cover the surface of the cut out cardboard letter with rubber cement or craft glue. Place decorative scrapbooking paper on top of the glued cardboard letter. Let dry for a few minutes, then with an exacto knife, place letter (decorative side down) on a self-healing cutting mat. Carefully cut the decorative paper along the edges of the cardboard so the decorative paper is flesh with the edge of the cardboard. Take the finished product and place it on any background of your choice and take a picture of it.
3. For this assignment, you will need a large orange or a small grapefruit, an exacto knife, scissors and a permanent marker. With the letter template given to you, please cut it out and place the cut out letter onto the fruit (not the top or bottom of the fruit). With a permanent marker, trace the letter on the fruit. Discard paper letter template. With an exacto knife, carefully cut out the traced letter on the peel of the fruit without cutting deep enough to penetrate all the way through the peel (none of the inside of the fruit or permanent marker should be visible when done). When you are finished, place the fruit on top of other mixed pieces of fruit to where the carved part is showing, and take a picture of the group of fruit.
4. Get a very large piece of drawing paper (18x24 or larger). Take the letter template given to you and cut the letter out. Using rubber cement, glue the letter you cut out, on to the large drawing paper. Get a box of crayons. With any shade or tint of these hues, choose a purple, green, blue and yellow and color all over the drawing paper in no certain pattern or direction to where most of the paper is covered in color, especially around the edges of the pasted letter. When done, peel off pasted letter and set aside or throw it away. Do not rub off any excess glue left on the drawing paper. Using black watercolor paint, paint a thin, very translucent layer where the letter template was. Let the paint dry. Take a picture of the finished product.
5. Using the letter template given to you, cut out the letter in a way that you can use the inside portion of the 8 ½”x11” paper as a stencil. Place the stenciled paper on the kitchen floor, taping down the four corners to secure it from sliding. Using any kind of cereals in the house, poor inside the letter template, making sure that the whole inside of the letter is filled with cereal. Carefully lift up the letter template off the floor without disturbing the cereal out of its place. Take a sippy cup and place it near the cereal letter on the floor. Take more cereal and crush up some of it and scatter it in random places around and away from the letter. Let Greyson stand near the mess and quickly take a picture of the letter with Greyson in the picture. It doesn’t have to be his whole body, it can be just his feet and legs, his hand reaching for the cereal or sippy cup etc….
6. Using the letter template given to you, cut out the letter in a way that you can use the inside portion of the 8 ½”x11” paper as a stencil. Place the stenciled paper on top of a bright colored background. Fill the inside of the letter stencil with pencil shavings. When the letter is completely filled, lift up template and take a picture.
7. Using the letter template given to you, bend a wire hanger to match the letter’s shape from the template. When perfected, hang on a nail on the wall and take a picture of it.
8. Cut out the letter from the template provided to you. Place on a half painted canvas diagonally so the top of the letter is pointing toward the top left corner of the canvas, and the bottom of the letter is toward the bottom right of the canvas. Trace the letter with a pencil. Paint the letter, using a similar color to that of what is already painted on the canvas, making sure not to get out of the penciled line. When finished take a picture of it.
9. Using the letter template provided to you, cut out the letter and place on pavement outside. Trace the cut out letter with chalk and throw the paper away. Color inside the lines of the letter you traced with a different color then that you traced it with. Make other regular chalk designs and pictures all around the letter. Take a picture.
10. Using the letter template given to you, cut out the letter in a way that you can use the inside portion of the 8 ½”x11” paper as a stencil. Gather sticks and twigs and break them down in a way you can fill the stenciled paper well enough to fill the whole letter without going out of the stencil letter. Lay stencil on ground, if the ground has snow, place it there, other wise just stick on grass. Fill the letter with the broken twigs and sticks. Lift up letter template and take a picture of the letter you made of sticks and twigs.
11. Cut out letter template provided to you. Trace the outside of the cut out letter onto a chunk of wood. With a wood burner, burn traced line. Either leave the inside of the letter plain or you can make designs in the letter using the wood burner, if you choose. Take a picture.
12. Cut out the letter of the template provided for you. Get the crate of eggs out of the refrigerator. Grab one egg out of the crate and trace the cut out letter onto the bottom of the egg with a hot pink permanent marker. Place the egg back into crate, with the letter side facing up, grouped with the other eggs, and, take a picture.
13. Using the letter template provided, cut out the letter and keep the 8 1/2”x 11” paper you cut the letter from. Using the paper with the letter cut out of it, put it on the counter and tape it down on all four corners to secure it to the counter. Carefully, without making a mess everywhere, place white rice in the paper within the letter stencil. Make sure there are no gaps between the rice and the edge of the letter. Lift the paper up off the counter carefully so you do not move around the rice you laid inside the paper. Put box of spaghetti noodles near the rice letter, and other cooking utensils and take a picture.
14. Cut out the letter template given to you and color it in with a lime green crayon. Take the glass container that has the gumballs in it off the fireplace, and dump the gum out. Tape the cut out and colored letter inside the glass container so the color is facing out. Refill the gumballs and take a picture with the letter and gumballs.
15. Using the letter template given to you, cut out the letter in a way that you can use the inside portion of the 8 ½”x11” paper as a stencil. Place this stencil on any solid color of fabric (minimal to no designs on the fabric). Fill in the stencil with all colors of string and/or yarn until the whole letter is filled. Pick up template and take a picture.
16. Using the letter template given to you, cut out the letter in a way that you can use the inside portion of the 8 ½”x11” paper as a stencil. Take the stencil and place it on a piece of scrap fabric not needed anywhere in the house for any reason. Trace the letter onto the fabric. Using the sewing machine, sew on the line of the letter you traced on the fabric until it is apparent that you have a letter sewed into it. Try using a lighter fabric with dark thread or just the opposite to get better results
17. Cut out letter from the template provided. Place letter the tiled part of the base of the fireplace and tape it down to secure it from moving around. Take decorative rocks and place on top of letter so none of the paper is showing, but that the rocks don’t go out of the lines. Place candles all around the rock letter, light the fireplace and take a picture including the rock letter, candles and fire burning in the background.
18. (This step is only if one of the steps from 1-17 does not work out) Using the letter template given to you, cut out the letter in a way that you can use the inside portion of the 8 ½”x11” paper as a stencil. Gather Nerf darts and discs from the boys’ guns and place them inside the stenciled cutout. When filled completely, lift up the paper, and place Nerf guns and extra ammo near the ammo-filled letter. Take a picture.
