Packing Tape Sculptures

Materials:
- Packing Tape
- Saran Wrap
- Models/ Forms

This is something I've aways wanted to try. We had one an awkward end to the year as far as timing went. With about 8 - 10 class days left, I thought this would be a good time to try out these sculptures.

Because this was a little on the "unplanned" side, I had the students opt to work by themselves or as a group and to sculpt a person or a prop. With my students being conveniently forgetful to ever bringing in objects to wrap, everyone chose to wrap a friend.

Basically we wrapped with saran wrap first (to save on packing tape), and then wrapped with packing tape. I know some people wrap only with packing tape sticky side out first, and then sticky side down. When everything is nicely wrapped, just cut a seam down whatever was just wrapped and tape back shut.

A lot of our sculptures turned out pretty deflated. I was so worried about running out of that expensive tape! After having done this now, though, I know that you need a solid three or four layers of tape, the saran wrap is just too flimsy to really hold up.

It's neat because you can even fill or stuff your sculptures!

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