As part of Creative Arts Week, Reception classes made dinosaurs from paper shopping bags…
Year Two classes made dinosaurs from strips of recycled card…
Year One classes made dinosaurs from juice cartons…
working with all pupils at Alumwell Infants
click here for how to make the Carton Puppet
Sketches/papercuts from a recent cycle-camping trip in Scotland
2. Draw a ‘sun’:
3. Draw some ‘sunrays’:
4. Add more ‘sunrays’:
5. Add some silhouettes:
6. Colour the silhouettes:
7. Add more silhouettes:
8. Colour those silhouettes:
9. Add long shadows:
Is the sun rising or setting? What’s the story?
10. Add colour and decoration to your design!
Have fun experimenting!
all the best
jim
Click Here to find out more about the Still Lively project
Year 4 pupils explore a range of emotions – and the ‘5 Steps’ to Wellbeing – using ‘listening and sharing’ games…
with Kim Fuller/CreativeHealthCIC
Inspired by the work of Paul Klee, here’s another way of creating your own decorative landscape.
2. Draw a roughly parallel ‘fence’ line:
3. Add a house or other feature:
4. Add ‘fence posts’:
5. Add other features – e.g. a gate:
6. Add some other features:
7. Now, choose one line in your picture and extend it:
8. Extend more lines:
9. Find more lines to extend:
10. Find even more lines to extend:
11. Add colour and decoration to your design!
Have fun experimenting!
all the best
jim
New mothers, their babies and Health Visitors try their hand at new finger rhymes – and make puppets for their feet:
Wordsley Green Health Centre – with Kim Fuller
Here’s how to make the ‘Envelope People’ puppets:
Inspired by the work of F.Hundertwasser, here’s a way of creating your own decorative landscape.
2. Draw a simple feature in your ‘landscape’:
3. Draw another feature:
4. And draw another feature:
5. Draw a ‘concentric’ line around the first feature:
6. …and draw a ‘concentric’ line around the second feature:
7. …and draw a ‘concentric’ line around the third feature:
8. Continue adding ‘concentric’ lines (“like ripples“):
9. Continue adding lines…
10. …to fill the paper:
11. Add colour and decoration to your design!
Have fun experimenting!
all the best
jim
Click Here to find out more about the artist F. Hundertwasser
