Author Archives: Amy

Our Thursday group had lots of fun creating their hero masks! They loved experimenting with feathers and glitter to create some interesting effects. One of the children was originally planning to make a bunny mask before deciding it might be more interesting to try out adding pearl paint and glitter to the feathers to makeContinue reading “Glittertastic Masks!”

This week our Wednesday group has had lots of fun creating some fantastic masks! We had some mask templates, card, pencils and scissors to create the masks with. Once this was done we had glitter glue pearly paint and our collage box to choose from and decorate our masks with!One of the children decided toContinue reading “Hero Masks!”

This week the Friday group continued experimenting with illustrations for their books, they also experimented with ways of creating their text. One of the children also experimented with sewing paper together with the idea of binding their book themselves this way. We had some feathers to try writing with, letter stamps and pens. The childrenContinue reading “Book Designing: Text, book binding and mixed media experimentation”

For our first Thursday 4-9 year old session we drew some budgie and cockatiel feathers like the Wednesday group did before half term (click HERE), but instead of monochrome patterns we experimented with colour mixing. We had red, light blue, dark blue, yellow and white paint long with different sized paint brushes to experiment with!TheContinue reading “Feather Patterns and Colour Mixing”

This week we created some Super Hero paintings! Some of us based our super heroes on members of our family and some of us created imaginary super heroes.To start with everyone drew their superhero with a pencil. Next each child had their own palette with white, red, blue and yellow paint. The children enjoyed experimentingContinue reading “Super Hero Time!”

Today we created some lovely placemats and garlands for the Queen’s Jubilee, the children also decided to create some other decorations using different colours. The first decoration we made was some Jubilee placemats, we drew patterns with wax crayons on a piece of A4 paper and then painted over the top using water colour paints.Continue reading “Jubilee Decorations and Free Choice”

This week our Friday group has been experimenting with ideas for the backgrounds. Using paint and different tools they experimented with what find of textures they could create for the backgrounds of the pages of their books (behind the text and illustrations). Sponges and string painting made some really interesting textures that one of theContinue reading “Book Designing: Backgrounds”