This week we created some spooky Halloween bunting using paper, chalk pastels and ribbon in our Wed & Thurs afternoon sessions. Some of the children enjoyed coming up with a story as they made the bunting, so the order of the pictures on the string followed the story order.Everyone loved blending the pastels with aContinue reading “Halloween Bunting”
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Derbyshire Wildlife Final Piece – Part 1
Today the children began their final pieces for our display. Using the grid method we practiced last month they created larger version of the artwork in their sketchbooks, this took most of the session. The children also began adding yarn and paint to their drawings.
Mischievous Monsters
This week the toddlers have had lots of fun making some mischievous monsters. First we created some yarn wrapped monsters using rainbow wool, the children found wrapping the wool round tricky and needed some help from parents. They enjoyed sticking googly eyes and some goofy smiles on the finished monsters.Next they painted a plate usingContinue reading “Mischievous Monsters”
Halloween Night Scenes
This week our 4-9 year old group had the opportunity to learn and practice some brush techniques with some spooky Halloween paintings.During the first half of the session the children first had to paint their backgrounds using two shades of blue and red for the paint. The children were told to use side to sideContinue reading “Halloween Night Scenes”
Drafting Animal Ideas for the Display – Part 2
During our second drafting session two of the children finished their draft ideas and the third tested out yarn painting with adhesive paper instead of glue. They found the adhesive paper worked a lot better as any folds and bends stayed in place a lot better than previous attempts in their sketchbook with glue. TheContinue reading “Drafting Animal Ideas for the Display – Part 2”
Clay Hedgehogs and Mark Making with Autumnal Finds
This week the toddlers enjoyed exploring found autumnal objects and using them with clay for making a hedgehog and experimenting with mark making. We had sweet chestnuts, acorns, sycamore seeds, beech nuts, ash keys, pinecones, twigs and leaves. We only looked at the sweet chestnut cases to see where the chestnuts come from as theyContinue reading “Clay Hedgehogs and Mark Making with Autumnal Finds”
Autumn Natural Objects Still Life
This week the 4-9 year olds have been creating some still life drawings with the extra challenge of they are only allowed to use coloured pencil crayons. This was a tricky challenge which made the children look carefully at what colours and shapes they could see. At times we had a few tears and drawingsContinue reading “Autumn Natural Objects Still Life”
Drafting Animal Ideas for the Display – Part 1
This week the Friday group have started planning what animal and materials they would like to use for their contribution to our display. They had access to watercolour paint, acrylic paint, chalk pastels, drawing pens, oil pastels and collage materials. One of the children quite enjoyed limiting themself to using just yarn for their fox.Continue reading “Drafting Animal Ideas for the Display – Part 1”
Derbyshire Wildlife Art
This week our toddlers had lots of fun making a prickle of hedgehogs, parliament of owls and scurry of squirrels! We had a box of different materials in all sorts of autumnal colours and textures for the toddlers to explore whilst they created their hedgehogs. We also had some googly eyes for extra fun!For ourContinue reading “Derbyshire Wildlife Art”
Filling Negative Space
This week the children have been exploring negative space and coming up with ideas of how to fill that space. They created the negative space by placing a leaf on a sheet of paper and rubbing chalk pastel over it. Below is an example of what negative space looks like before the children fill it.Continue reading “Filling Negative Space”
Primrose Art Club 