Cartoon animals
Today the primary art explorers challenge was to create their own cartoon animal. I used a technique from Paula Briggs book Drawing...
Summers here!
Summers here so beach themed crafts are perfect. The pre school art explorers loved making these salt dough shell decorations. They...
Beautiful blooms
I just love all the gorgeous flowers that have come into bloom over the past month. The pre school art explorers had great fun creating...
Monoprinting on baking trays
Monoprinting is very satisfying for children as they get quick and impressive results, if they don't like something they can simple roll...
Drawing to scale!
I've not been very good at updating the blog recently, (as facebook posts are quicker!). It's rather tricky to put all the fantastic arty...
So much more than mess!
This morning the pre school art explorers were invited to use vehicles to paint with which proved a very popular activity- some...
Hop hop hop!
The Easter bunny visited today and was very impressed with the gorgeous Easter wreaths and sun catchers the art explorers created. If you...
Messy messy papier mache!
This week was particularly messy - with many bottles of glue used in the process. Both the pre school classes and primary class made...
African animals
By popular demand the art explorers after school club focused on African animals. We looked at paintings by artist Jennifer Mercede and...
Mad for Mondrian
Our school art explorers class absolutely loved the bright bold colours and shapes used by Mondrian. Inspired by his works and using...
