Curriculum Impact Tag: Art & Design

We have been using vegetable to explore texture and print this week.  The children have mixed colours and appparatus to create their own pictures using vegetables to print from. 

Year 2 enjoyed creating their own Aboriginal art versions.

Today we investigated the effect of different salts when added to water colours. We used table, epsom and Himalayan salt along with a combination of each to create the different effects.

The children are continuing to explore with clay. They have all made and painted their favourite minibeasts which we have displayed in our window. 

To some this might look like a messy busy classroom.  To us it is a creative, collaborative creation that the children have worked hard on all afternoon and are rightly proud of.  It represents relationships, compromise, dialogue, decision making, flexible thinking, resilience, perseverance and…

The children in nursery are developing and strengthening their fine motor skills to create minibeasts using clay. They are rolling, pinching, and poking to make different shapes and patterns. 

Year 2 used magazine images and their own previous work to create a collage.

Using PVA glue, tissue paper and cling film, the children created 3D bowls.

They selected analogous colours (colours next to each other on the colour wheel) for their designs.

Today we have enjoyed creating some valentines crafts for our families.

The children have been learning about Chinese New Year and looking at images and clips of the parade in Liverpool. Some children also created Chinese numbers up to 5 using different coloured paints. 

As part of our art topic we have been studying mandalas. These patterns are used in Hinduism and Buddhism and use concentric circles.