Today our toddler group have made their own animal masks, they got to choose what animal they made; an elephant and a giraffe were chosen.The toddlers drew round the mask templates with a yellow crayon, they then tried drawing the animals ears and horns attached to the mask outline. Initially they had a go atContinue reading “Animal Masks”
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Hero 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!”
Book Designing: Text, book binding and mixed media experimentation
This week the Friday group continued experimenting with illustrations for their books, they also experimented with ways of creating their text. One of the children also experimented with sewing paper together with the idea of binding their book themselves this way. We had some feathers to try writing with, letter stamps and pens. The childrenContinue reading “Book Designing: Text, book binding and mixed media experimentation”
Feather Patterns and Colour Mixing
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”
Exploring Wax Resist Painting and Revisiting Spin Art
During the first half of our session this week the toddlers had lots of fun experimenting with wax resist painting. To begin with they had a massive piece of paper rolled out on the floor to have fun covering! Although they loved uncovering ‘magic pictures’ with the paint the toddlers enjoyed experimenting with colour mixingContinue reading “Exploring Wax Resist Painting and Revisiting Spin Art”
Super Hero Time!
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!”
Jubilee Decorations and Free Choice
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”
Book Designing: Backgrounds
This week our Friday group has been experimenting with ideas for the backgrounds. Using paint and different tools they experimented with what find of textures they could create for the backgrounds of the pages of their books (behind the text and illustrations). Sponges and string painting made some really interesting textures that one of theContinue reading “Book Designing: Backgrounds”
Spin Paintings
This week our Toddler group had lots of fun experimenting with spin art! To create spin paintings you need white, red, blue and yellow paint, some paper plates and paper. You place two-four blobs of paint on the plate, preferably different colours and spaced apart. Then you place the plate paint side down on theContinue reading “Spin Paintings”
Monochrome Feathers
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”
Primrose Art Club 