Category Archives: 10-13 year old session

Continuing on with the Harry Potter theme our Friday group pretended to be magizoologists discovering new magical creatures within the world of Harry Potter. We ended up with a mixture of horror inspired creatures, a medusa, an Egyptian art styled bird/human hybrid, an octofly and a chimera with a lions head, goose wings and orangutanContinue reading “Magizoologist’s Field Sketchbooks”

This week the Friday group have had a lot of fun making their own potions. Everyone had two jars each and access to lots of different materials they could experiment with. We had water, cornflour, food colouring, glitter, flowers, bicarbonate of soda, lemon juice, feathers, washing up liquid, coffee granules, sugar and salt. One ofContinue reading “Harry Potter Potions”

Because it is July, the month Harry Potter was born, we have decided to have a Harry Potter themed art month! To start off with today we made some Harry Potter wands using sticks, string, buttons, hot glue guns, paint and glitter!I made some example wands for the children to look at before they beganContinue reading “Harry Potter Magic Wands”

This week we started our final piece for our illustrative book project. We ended up spending most of the session measuring out and cutting the paper for the books to the right size, the last part of the session was spent on painting some of the backgrounds and covers.The ‘L’ shaped book is going toContinue reading “Final Book – Part 1”

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”

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”

Today the children spent the first half of the session colouring in and making some fairies to add to the display we are making out of the fairy grotto picture the Wednesday group created. We will finish them off next week. During the second half of the session we began our second mini project. WeContinue reading “Fairies & Travel Book Project”

Today the children had loads of fun exploring mark making with paint. The session started off with them exploring using different mark making tools such as paper plates, masking tape, brushes, cardboard, mixing different materials in paint such as salt, different types of sponges and splashing water on wet paint. Then one of the childrenContinue reading “Mark Making Experiment”

This week the children made the finishing touches to their canvas paintings. Once they were satisfied with their art they then spent the second half of the session making bracelets. They enjoyed looking through the bead box and choosing which beads to use. Next week we are going to have fun exploring and experimenting withContinue reading “Finishing the Canvas Project and Making Bracelets”