Category Archives: 4-9 year old session

This week our 4-9 year olds have been making some Autumnal Lanterns using recycled jam jars, acrylic paint, tissue paper, leaves, glue and tea light candles. We had a battery operated candle available so we can test out the lanterns before taking them home.The children were given the option of making Halloween themed lanterns ifContinue reading “Autumnal Lanterns”

This week our 4-9 year olds will be filling this entire roll of paper with drawings of their hands, they will have access to different fabrics, glue, pens, oil pastels, chalk pastels and pencils to decorate their hands different Autumnal colours. The plan is to make a tree on our display board out of everyone’sContinue reading “Autumnal Hands for Our Tree”

This week our Wednesday and Thursday afternoon groups explored Pointilism. They drew the outline for their picture and then used the end of a paint brush to make dots. One of the children used the end of a chop stick to make suitable block shaped spots for their painting of Steve a character from Minecraft.Continue reading “Pointilism”

This week our 4-9 year old groups created their very own felt bookmarks, whilst some of the children who came on Monday finished off their felt plush.The children drew a picture of what they would like to go on their bookmark before using a dressmakers chalk pencil to draw the shapes on the felt andContinue reading “Felt Bookmarks and Finishing off Plushies”

This week our 4-9 year olds had lots of fun exploring creating 3D paper art using different coloured paper, scissors and sticky pads. While initially hesitant the children became more confident and found the process of creating 3D paper art more enjoyable as they added more layers and experimented with the different shaped scissors. OneContinue reading “‘Drawing with Scissors’”

Today we had lots of fun exploring some of the natural dyes we can make using vegetables and berries that we can buy from the shops. We used red cabbage, blackberries, spinach and turmeric to make our dyes. We actually used the red cabbage to make three different colours thanks to a fun from scienceContinue reading “Natural Dyes Workshop”

This week the Wednesday and Thursday groups were tasked with creating pictures based on their holidays using two or more different materials. The children had access to washi tape, pencils, chalk pastels, oil pastels, water colour paint, collage materials, pens and colouring pencils.We ended up with quite a few pictures based on holidays in Cornwall!TheContinue reading “Mixed Media Art Based On Our Holidays”

This weeks extra summer session was focused on exploring what we can create via clay modelling. During the first half of the session everyone created their very own mosaic coaster using beads and clay, while in the second half the children had the opportunity to create whatever they wanted.We have ended up with some vibrantContinue reading “Clay Modelling Summer Session”

This week our Wednesday and Thursday Groups had lots of fun exploring what textures they can create with paint. They used different tools such as palette knives, feathers, four different sponges, pom-poms, sand, plastic needles, forks, cardboard, string and buttons.The most popular tools were the sponges and palette knives. The children quickly realised they couldContinue reading “Textured Beach Paintings”

This week our 4-9 year old groups were given the task of looking at some real shells and drawing them. They had the choice of pencils, pastels, charcoal and drawing pens. Initially everyone was fascinated by the shells and enjoyed looking at the different textures (in particular the smoothness of some vs the roughness ofContinue reading “Seashell Observational Drawings”