Artists’ Books – mark making and imaginative writing. Week 1 As with all the classes for the Spring workshops, the young creatives gave me lots of ideas for the development of this workshop block. Books and imaginative writing were ideas that emerged from the Tuesday class. This gave me the idea to look back at …
Plastic pollution and our sea birds At the end of last term I asked the children for their ideas for the workshops new Spring term – I have always let their feedback steer the ideas for this block. The many requests included painting, modelling and something sea themed. One of the things we discussed during …
Week 1: Yarn wrapped birds & beasties It’s always great to start the winter workshops, but always so hard trying to chose which of the seasonal activities to do – there so many ideas to chose from. For this winter I returned to a couple of favourites though. For one of my Saturday classes, who …
Clay tea light holders For the final 2 weeks of the Winter term workshop, we stuck to model making, but this time switching to clay and a little bit of a festive theme. With many of the children having used clay for the first part of the workshop, this activity gave them the opportunity to …
Imagined Worlds and Characters: part 4 This week was the chance for the young creatives to complete their models. This was done with careful painting of the clay pieces, making sure the children paid close attention to the different ares of their creations, so that the wonderful detail they made the previous week was not …
Imagined Worlds and Characters: part 3 On to week 3 of the workshops and moving onto developing our little characters created in the earlier sessions. The young creatives had a choice of how they wished to make their characters – either using clay or junk modelling. Fortunately my years of hoarding pays off when it …