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Things I made from cardboard PART 8: something NEW!! We crossed the oceans and the globe for year 4 last half term and went to wonderful India to discover the beautiful story of ‘Savitri and Satyvan’ and I have to say, I LOVED the story A

Sacred Hearts hopefully all now hanging up in this wonderful sunshine!!! This was a 4 week papier-mâché project that required a LOT of gold paint. Oh my do small people like things SHINY. Great fun project, many skills and patience requ

Ken living his best life. Upcycled tea paper, upcycled pen ink, charity shop Barbie’s, Disney sound track, catwalk runway, vogue, Mrs Beany ‘sashaying and slaying’ and 40+ Y2 fashion designers. ❤️❤️😘 #art #arteducation #sustainable

JOY!!! 3 weeks into this project and they now set up the easels on their own, gather the boards and pinned up their still life’s. Done like a pro!!! JOY!! 🎨 💦 🖼️ 🎨 🧹 #art #arteducation #painting #stilllife #y3

Our first full project has now gone home! Inspired by a GORGEOUS small African mask I treated myself to at Christmas (thank you @tribalspace.co.uk) We introduced our M+P’s to the cultural practice of African mask making, the why, the how and th

Year 4 BLOWING MY MIND with their studies of still life’s over the gazillion years that humans have being looking and drawing stuff!!! And these are only the studies 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 including hand made paper’s of course 😜 #art #arteducationma

Consider this your weather forecast!! 🤣 😂 MMC (magical mythical creatures) started back this week and what better way to begin than with a creature seen roaming the streets of London over last few weeks, the YETI. I haven’t posted many of our

Sooooooo many to choose from!! But here are some in pairs xx

These have blown us away…. Our 4 week Christmas project finally went home last Friday. Every little ornament a gorgeous little momento ❤️ The task was to make a hanging ornament of our M+P’s parents. BUT they had to be turned into animal

Things I made from cardboard PART 7: MACBETH is done!!! It was dark, moody and I had epic remote control candles added to the chandelier’s this time. I LOVE THEM 😍 and I keep turning them on and off in the art room with my battery operated wan

A little light relief before we start our Christmas projects which will require ALL our efforts and skills 🧝🧝&zwj;♀️🧝&zwj;♂️ our M+P’s were given an A3 copy of a magazine cover and TONS of acrylic pens - and oh my do the small people loooove

We ended our Black History Month celebrations with a whole school assembly this year surrounded by 6 LARGER than life spiritual African Masks made by y4 and y5. 80 girls, cut, sawed, stuck and debated about each and every shape and colour on these fa

Sorry for being LATE to the game!! But here’s our sensational spooky Halloween project. A SHRUNKEN head on a stick!! Some not so Shrunken 🤣 a ton of these went home so I’m still sitting through photos - but will post more so as to keep y

ABSOLUTE gems 💎 coming out of my year 4!!! We’re making zines. No text, no words, visual story telling only. The HUGE world of drawing is open to them. A great way to introduce many materials over time and to improve visual literacy. And this

We’re BACK!!! Too busy with life and work to post any earlier this year. Oops!! But here we are with a slow introduction to the most beautiful time of the year. AUTUMN. Trying to slow things down a little to encourage looking and appreciation o

I’ve said goodbye to the HEAT for now but I’ve kept the tiles 😉 I think I should be on holiday FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER ☀️ 🌊 #acrylicpens #paint #folkart #sketch #art #arteducationmatters #holiday

Here are some scrumptious little teddies made by y3 we actually managed to finish this project this year with incredible extra help from other members of staff and some extra time. We helped make 40 in all, and ALL of them are made completely from SC

Things I made from cardboard PART 6: The last of the Primary School plays. 4 in a year is a LOT and my hands and feet are now on holiday. HURRAY. This was OLIVER for year 6. Their end of primary school life and their last hurrah. I loved painting the

I found this GLORIOUS piece of wood on my beach combing walks over last Christmas far far away, brought it home and dried it out (carefully by my thoughtful husband 😍 ) and I’ve only recently found a small window of time to finally elevate it

Self portraits in the style of #julianopie DONE. Although as you can see from this selection of triumphant portraits, our M+P’s ended up finding their very own way to express themselves. THANK GOODNESS 😉 Older M+P’s worked on stretched c

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