Category Archives: 4-9 year old session

This week our 4-9 year old groups have had lots of fun making their own jellyfish wind-charms using old yogurt pots, threading cord and pony beads. The first task for everyone was to decide if they wanted to make a repeating pattern or randomised colours, the older children overall preferred making patterns whilst the youngerContinue reading “Jellyfish Wind-Charms”

This week our Thursday group had a lot of fun learning how to make their own lift the flap pictures!Everyone started off with the stencil of a ship, which they then added rooms and decorations to using a pencil and ruler. Once this task was completed they coloured their ships in with a mix ofContinue reading “Lift the Flap Pirate Ships”

This week we had a go at making our own lift the flap pictures! Everyone started with a stencil of a ship, a pencil, rubber and ruler to make their secret rooms, draw their characters and add decorations to their ships. Once this task was completed they were given the option of watercolour paints, brush-tipContinue reading “Lift the Flap Ship Fleet”

This week we made sock and stick puppets, everyone started off making a sock puppet first and then for their second puppet they could choose to make a stick puppet or another sock puppet (the mermaid puppet ended up turning into a cut and stick picture!Everyone took a lot of care and attention in selectingContinue reading “Fantastic Animal Puppets”

The Thursday group had the task of drawing somewhere they know using only paper and tape during the first half of the session this week. We ended up with sunset in the countryside, home and a firework display! Everyone had a lot of fun looking at all the different coloured and patterned tape, they alsoContinue reading “Tape and String Drawing”

This week our 4-9 year old groups have an interesting challenge! They need to try drawing a picture without a pencil, pen, pastel or any other mark making materials.For their first drawing challenge they had to draw a picture of a town or city using only scissors, paper and tape. Everyone rose to the challengeContinue reading “Drawing without a pencil”

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!”

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!”