Category Archives: Art Lesson Gallery

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”

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”

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 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”

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”

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!”