Category Archives: 4-9 year old session

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”

Today we had a look at some bird feathers from budgies and cockatiels, we then chose some feathers to draw. The biggest challenge was to see if we could draw the feathers’ larger than they are in real life!After we had drawn them our next task was to paint or colour the feathers in usingContinue reading “Monochrome Feathers”

This week we have been exploring the idea of warm and cold colours by making silhouette paintings of animals. We used warm colours to make backgrounds for the animals from hot climates and we used cold colours to make backgrounds for the animals from cold climates. Next week we will be exploring monochrome colour schemesContinue reading “Animal Silhouette Paintings”

We spent today’s session finishing off our Fairy Grotto picture. Most of the children managed to complete their part of the Grotto. They enjoyed thinking up ways to use collage materials and pencil crayons together, such as collage dresses for fairies with pencil crayon bodies or shiny wrapping paper pond surrounded by pencil crayon gnomesContinue reading “Finishing off our Fairy Grotto”

For the first part of our session today everyone made beautiful fairy bracelets!Each person chose a main colour for their bracelet and then they chose a second colour that was either opposite or next to their main colour on the colour wheel. The white, silver and letter beads were free for everyone to use. WithContinue reading “Fairy Bracelets and Grotto”

For the first part of this term we are going to be focusing on colour and patterns for our topic. Today we have been having fun trying out oil pastels! For our first task everyone drew round their hand and tried making patterns using opposite colours in the colour wheel!Everyone enjoyed exploring mark making withContinue reading “Oil Pastel Patterns & Monsters”

As something a little bit different this week we had several activities available today. We had egg painting, daffodil collages, pom-pom chicks and Easter colouring pages. Everyone loved painting eggs and making collages! The pom-poms were tricky and we ended up only getting three done, we probably need more time if we make pom-pom chicksContinue reading “Easter Arts & Craft”

Today we had lots of fun painting pictures based on our favourite stories. Some chose to paint scenes from their chosen stories and others had a go at recreating the book covers.There was a choice of different sized brushes, sponges, cotton wool, wool, cardboard, bubble wrap and plastic palette knives to use. Everyone had theirContinue reading “Our Favourite Stories”

Today we have been doing some observational drawings of some plants. The children had lots of different materials to choose from to create their art and we ended up with a variety of different pictures! Some of the children even decided to turn their art into cards for family members. Next week we will beContinue reading “Plant Life Drawing”

Today everyone has had so much fun recreating their gardens at home or creating an imaginary garden using lots of different materials. We had tissue paper, wool, pompoms, boxes, ribbons, buttons, fabric and lots of different types of paper. Everyone loved all the different shiny materials we had! They also enjoyed practicing their scissor skillsContinue reading “Our Garden Collages”