Curriculum Impact Tag: Art & Design

Expressive Arts & Design

The children enjoyed exploring paint and colour mixing with their feet this week. First they walked in paint with their feet covered in bubble wrap and created ‘dinosaur footprints’. Then they went barefoot describing and comparing how it felt using words such as…

Expressive Arts & Design

The children have been exploring with paints creating firework pictures and colourful pebbles for our woodland area. 

The children made a shape pattern by drawing around 3D shapes. They then painted the different sections using primary colours.

We are making boxes covered in fabric. We used the nets of shapes to create the box. Next we will cover them in fabric.

This week the children have been practising their observational drawing. We have used a selection of autumnal leaves and pumpkins of different colours, textures and size to carefully draw what we can see. We have talked about looking closely for details and discussed the autumnal colours we could…

As part of our forest skills activities the chidlren have been making badges.  This week we decorated our name badges and added wool to hang them around our necks.  

We took part in a zoom masterclass yesterday, organised by Children’s University and led by Lara, a CBBC animator. 
it was fascinating and the children absolutely loved thinking creatively and having a go at some of their own doodle monsters. All starting with a simple scribble. 
 

…

Year 2 joined a Children’s University masterclass where we heard from an illustrator called Laura who does animations for CBeebies. She demonstrated how to draw a range of amazing monsters and then the children all had a go.

We have been working textiles to create our own box covered in fabric. It was pretty messy but they looked great 

After listening to the story ‘Leaf Man’, we used our Autumn collection to create our very own Leaf Men! What brilliant creations!

Today the children in Nursery A learned about the soft wood inside an elder branch and using a metal tent peg, they created holes in the wooden pieces.  Next they used threading skills to push a piece of wool through the holes to create bracelets. Finally, they further exercised their fine motor…

We have been inspired to make some art with nature by finding out about the work of artist and sculptor Andy Goldsworthy.  After collecting Autumn treasures at home, we have used these to create.  We have made faces, patterns and even our own trees.  We have been developing our vocabulary around…