Following on from our Shapes in Art exploration, our Shape Hunt game and our Shape View Finders we took the book “Perfect Square” by Michael Hall (ISBN 978-0061915130) to the museum to explore shapes and how they can change. The book follows a square who is changed in some way to become something new; a…
Shape in Art – Shape View Finders
Building on our Shapes in Art and Shape Hunting experiences we made some shape view finders to further explore shapes in the museum. Our view finders were simply made from cutting a shape from a piece of cardboard and decorating them. Using paints and felt tip pens. The felt tip pen didn’t have great contact…
Shapes in Art – DIY Game
After our Shapes in Art activity at The Fitzwilliam Museum in January, I wanted to create a shape resource that would help us explore shapes in other galleries and museums. Using the idea of going on a hunt for shapes I created some prompts on luggage tags which we held together using ribbon. I laminated…
Shapes in Art
As part of the Family First Saturday activities at the Fitzwilliam Museum we took part in a shape hunt at the beginning of January. We searched for geometric shapes described as simple shapes like a circle or a square and organic shapes described as shapes found in nature such as a leaf or an ear. S…
Flower Art
“A Flower Playground” by S. Following on from our Fantastic Friday Sand pictures we continued to explore some temporary art using flowers. On a wet English summer’s day we used the sun as our inspiration after reading the book “‘Wow’ Said the Owl” by Tim Hopgood (ISBN 978-0-230-70104-5). We began by making some…