Blog by Tag: Art

We have been learning about the festival of Diwali and how light is a symbol for good triumphing over evil.  We made our own handprint diva lights. We made them in soft squashy salt dough which became hard when we cooked it.  We made them bright and colourful. 

We have been developing our computing skills creating firework art, we needed to change the brush size and colour to create the picture.

The children have been developing their collage skills using different materials to make their mini people.  Super teamwork and lots of persistence was required, well done year 1.

The children have been working very hard on their drawing skills.  They have been looking closely In the mirror And thinking carefully about shape, size and colour.  It took a few drafts before we got it just right but we are really pleased with the finished results. Can you guess who is…

This week we have been thinking about what makes our world wonderful, we have been learning the song too. For our Art challenge we have been creating rainbows using different brushes and different materials to add texture.  For an extra challenge we have been learning to mix all the colours of the…

Today we worked hard to finish our Jellyfish and put them outside in our jellyfish garden.  It was lovely to see them blowing in the wind and to look at the colours in their shadows.  We hope that everyone enjoys looking at them as they walk past on their way to school.  We hope it helps remind…

We decided to try and make something beautiful from all of the plastic bottle lids.  We hope that seeing all of the lids will help people to think about how much plastic we use in just one week.  We are really looking forward to seeing it up on display.  Once again we really appreciated the help…

We have been creating 3D art with recycled materials by turning some of our left over plastic bottles into jellyfish.  We cut in different ways to give the tentacles different shapes and patterns.  We are hoping the jellyfish will look nice in our school garden.

The children have really worked hard making their underwater prints.  They drew the design, transferred it to a foam tile, before adding paint and making a print.  It was quite a challenge to get the right amount of paint but everyone enjoyed having a go and we made lots of prints.  We tried out…

This week, we have been writing a picture poem about our journey to Antarctica in the role of one of Ernest Shakleton's crew. Today, we have started designing and creating an ice background for our poetry. We can't wait to show you the finished piece!

This week we have been investigating the creatures that live in the coral reefs and finding out what coral is.  We have been drawing and painting the creatures that live on the reef as well as having a go at modelling coral with play dough.  We have written facts that we already knew and spent…

We enjoyed using collage materials to create our Great Fire of London lanterns.  We tried cutting and tearing to create the different effects.