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Polar Storytime and Play

July 26, 2017 by zuzuart Leave a Comment

We spent a lovely morning at the Polar Museum in Cambridge. We listened to the story “A Symphony of Whales” by S Schuch (ISBN 978-0152165482) . We then got to explore a narwhal’s tusk. It was enormous! The boys made their own narwhal tusks by cutting paper and rolling it into a cone. They twisted a…

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Charcoal Exploration

July 5, 2017 by zuzuart Leave a Comment

We explored some charcoal and large paper. A used it as a pencil, drawing a picture of Papa. and a washing machine. S also initially used it as a pencil, drawing a picture of some safari animals, “because zebras are black and white”. He then worked out it could do different things and explored the…

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Pirate crafts

June 14, 2017 by zuzuart Leave a Comment

As mentioned in the Poem Boxes post, A has been interested in pirates of late. He had a pirate themed birthday and I thought we should share some of the things we made and played as part of the celebrations over the next few weeks. Here is a general over view of some things we…

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Remembering Monet on his Birthday

November 14, 2016 by zuzuart Leave a Comment

We remembered our visit to Giverny in 2014 and the art we created after spending a day in Monet’s beautiful gardens. Happy Birthday Claude Monet!

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Shapes in Art – Using “Perfect Square” by Michael Hall to explore shape

September 1, 2016 by zuzuart Leave a Comment

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…

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Exploring Découpage Materials

January 30, 2016 by zuzuart Leave a Comment

“Decoupage: n. The decoration of the surface of an object with paper cut outs. Origin 1960s: Fr. From découper ‘cut out’” Oxford Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press 2006. We recently decorated some paper mache letters as a gift for my nephew’s first birthday. This gave me the idea of creating some letters to take out…

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