Today the children spent the first half of the session colouring in and making some fairies to add to the display we are making out of the fairy grotto picture the Wednesday group created. We will finish them off next week. During the second half of the session we began our second mini project. WeContinue reading “Fairies & Travel Book Project”
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Box Modelling Animals
Today we had loads of fun making 3D animals! We used paint, boxes, fabric, googly eyes, glue and cellotape. The Toddler group made two snappy crocodiles and one sleepy hippo, we mixed our own green and brown paint so that we could make our animals the right colours. Next week we are going to exploreContinue reading “Box Modelling Animals”
Animal Silhouette Paintings
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”
Mark Making Experiment
Today the children had loads of fun exploring mark making with paint. The session started off with them exploring using different mark making tools such as paper plates, masking tape, brushes, cardboard, mixing different materials in paint such as salt, different types of sponges and splashing water on wet paint. Then one of the childrenContinue reading “Mark Making Experiment”
Finishing off our Fairy Grotto
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”
Finishing the Canvas Project and Making Bracelets
This week the children made the finishing touches to their canvas paintings. Once they were satisfied with their art they then spent the second half of the session making bracelets. They enjoyed looking through the bead box and choosing which beads to use. Next week we are going to have fun exploring and experimenting withContinue reading “Finishing the Canvas Project and Making Bracelets”
Shape Collage
Today we enjoyed exploring the different materials in our collage box and talking about how they feel. We also enjoyed seeing what colours and shapes we could spot! Next time we are going to make some animals out of boxes and paint them, we will also try mixing our own colours!
Fairy Bracelets and 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”
Canvas Project Part 2
Today we continued with our canvas paintings, adding more details and the background to the paintings. The main bulk is more or less done and we should easily finish them off next week.
Mark Making with Paint
Today we had our first Toddler session, our main activity was exploring mark making with paint! We had different shaped sponges, different size brushes, tape, string and plastic palette knives to experiment with! We enjoyed naming the colours and shapes of the sponges, we even had a go at doing some finger painting. It wasContinue reading “Mark Making with Paint”
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