This week the majority of our Friday group were on holiday so we used today to finish off some art for our display. We ended up discussing the author and illustrator Harriet Muncaster who is a source of inspiration for the child who created the lovely fairies below. Next week we will be trying out 3DContinue reading “Collage Fairies”
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Textured Beach Paintings
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”
Splat Painting!
Today our toddler group had lots of fun exploring gravity through splat painting! We rolled out a large piece of paper and placed trays of paint and different objects around the paper. We had plastic eggs, feathers, four different sponges, spaghetti, buttons, shells, pipe cleaners, socks, beaded necklaces, beaded bracelets, cotton reels and two chunkyContinue reading “Splat Painting!”
Bead and Button Creatures
During our first summer holidays extra session the children had a go at creating animals using beads and buttons! We used pipe cleaners as the material they threaded beads onto so that they could bend the pipe cleaners into the shapes they needed. There was also some googly eyes available which ended up making theContinue reading “Bead and Button Creatures”
Magizoologist’s Field Sketchbooks part 2
This week the Friday group created their magical creature pictures for our display, some of the children practiced a few ideas in their sketchbook first before creating their final piece. They created their magical beasts by combining different real animals using some animal encyclopaedias we had available to look through as inspiration. Some of theContinue reading “Magizoologist’s Field Sketchbooks part 2”
Seashell Observational Drawings
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”
Foam Painting
This week the Toddler group had lots of fun trying out foam marble painting with water colour paint. The children enjoyed spreading the foam in their tray, using a pipette to add colour and stirring everything together with a chop stick and then making a print on the paper. Unfortunately the foam print did notContinue reading “Foam Painting”
Magizoologist’s Field Sketchbooks
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”
Exploring Mark Making in Playdough and Clay
This week the Toddler group had lots of fun exploring mark making with different tools in playdough and making some clay art to take home using the mark making techniques they tried out with the playdough. Testing out mark making with feathers, shells and some of the stone jewellery was lots of fun! It wasContinue reading “Exploring Mark Making in Playdough and Clay”
Jellyfish Wind-Charms
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”
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