Blog by Tag: Art

The children have really worked hard producing their puppets, it has taken time to sew them together and the children have finally got to the bit they were really looking forward to, creating their characters.  Working with textiles is tricky but everyone was very persistent and the children did a…

our art this half term is making puppets. We have been working hard with our sewing but you will have to wait a bit longer to see the finished results. Our card stick puppets were much easier to make. We are going to use them to help us retell our class story.  

We know we will have to wait a long time until our sunflowers grow and so we decided to create our own.  We were inspired by Van Gough to try using thick paint and adding texture by scratching in patterns.  We also tried other techniques, we used water colour, wax crayon and pastels.  We talked…

I can’t wait to read the stories which will be created with the storyboards! 

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Keeping with our plant theme the children have been exploring painting leaves.  We have been using thick paint and mixing shades of green by dipping the brush in different colours.  We used different tools to scratch leaf patterns in the thick paint. We thought carefully about the different…

We have been exploring the different effects you can create using water colour paints.  We tried mixing different shades of blue for our patterned raindrops.  The children were keen to try the other colours so Mrs Bartlett brought in beautiful coloured tulips to inspire our paintings.  The…

All the children at school and many at home created the most wonderful rainforest boxes.  The children used a range of materials from clay to paper to achieve their finished design.  This took a long time with lots of preparation of research, planning, designing and much more.  Well done to…

we are so pleased with our make do and mend project during lockdown! The bags have turned out better than we could of imagined.  We used scraps of material we found around the school and have given them a new life! As you can see from the pictures the children are very happy with the results!…

I am so impressed with the amount of effort the children are putting in at home, they are showing a great deal of independence and positive attitude to learning.  

This task was a short and effective one, the children looked at zoo animals and made their version of a card game such as snap…

A lovely example of the dig for victory poster! 

We are creating moon postcards, this is the first step in our postcard.  We used lots of different printing blocks to create the texture of the moon.  We thought about colour and shade too.  
 

When our postcards are complete we will show you our finished work.