S has been exploring the paintings and style of Pablo Picasso at school this term. Over the holidays he created a Picasso Style portrait of A. When at the Roald Dalhl Museum, we also made some portraits using the character building resources they have on offer. Our final portrait exploration was a Matisse – painting…
S’s Parrot Painting
Over the half term holidays S was tasked with creating a parrot for an animation project they are doing at school. It has been fantastic watching his work progress over the week. Here are some pictures of his journey.
Polar Storytime and Play
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…
Charcoal Exploration
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…
Pirate crafts
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…
Remembering Monet on his Birthday
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!
Shapes in Art – Using “Perfect Square” by Michael Hall to explore shape
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…
Exploring Découpage Materials
“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…