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Craft

Welcome to AccessArt: Craft

Making medals out of recycled materials by Jan Miller

Explore AccessArt resources which promote an exploration and understanding of contemporary crafts.

Resources can be adapted to a wide range of ages and settings.

Dip Your Toes Into Craft

Explore these sample resources to begin your exploration of craft as an activity

Creativity Medals

Making medals out of recycled materials by Jan Miller

fruit inspired clay tiles

5a Fruit project tiles

Shadow Puppets and performance

Holding up a large shadow puppet of a palace

Explore craft artists

Explore these artists who explore craft through a variety of materials to celebrate culture and history

the ancient art of kolam

A Charmed Life BBC Short https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p078rmpr

Malaysian Shadow Puppet

Spirit of Kelantan (Wayang Kulit) https://vimeo.com/90989377

Shaheen Ahmed

Persia by Shaheen Ahmed

Explore Craft Materials

Explore craft through different materials

Explore Paper

Hexagonal Paper Weave by Naomi Kendall

Explore Clay

Clay Pinch Pots and Pendants Inspired By Stone Age Pots by Charlotte Puddephatt

Explore Fabric

Examples of professional artist's textile blood bags by Mandy Barrett

See All AccessArt Craft Resources

An embossed drawing of a spider.

Iridescent Insects

Laura McKendry egg box gargoyles

Egg Box Gargoyles

Clay Pinch Pots and Pendants Inspired By Stone Age Pots by Charlotte Puddephatt

Adapting AccessArt: Stone Age Clay Play

Filling a care box with cardboard items.

Magic Caring Box

Painting Plates by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: Plates Inspired by Janine Burrows

Fairy Heads Inspired by Samantha Bryan by Nat Deane

Our Creative Community: Inspired by Samantha Bryan Part One

Fairy Inspired By Samantha Bryan Workshop by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: Inspired by Samantha Bryan Part Two

Glueing shapes onto a circle of paper.

Angry Cat, Calm Cat

Two painted cardboard cups together.

Wet Strength Tissue Paper Cups

A finished collaged plant made with painted card and wire.

Painted and Sculptural Plant Pots

A scarf and jacket on painted cardboard.

Alternative Fashion

display your bauble by Scarlett Rebecca

Recycled Baubles by Scarlett Rebecca

Threading the Paper Twist by Scarlett Rebecca

Recycled Baskets by Scarlett Rebecca

Cardboard Objects Altogether by Tobi Meuwissen

Top Tips for Cardboard Creations

Four textile blood bags on display by Mandy Barrett

The Blood Bag Project

Round and Round Paper Weave by Naomi Kendall

Explore Paper Weaving

How Do We Look At Contemporary Sculpture: Meg Klosterman

AccessArt Drawing Prompt Cards

AccessArt’s Prompt Cards for Making

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Remembrance Day Peg Soldiers

Theresa Easton Turkish Map Fold

Turkish Map Fold

Making medals out of recycled materials by Jan Miller

Creativity Medals

Shaker sticks made from bells and sticks

Making Musical Instruments

Morris Mike by Nathan Ward

Which Artists: Nathan Ward

Using fabrics to make model pizzas

Art Club Cafe

Two puppets showing variation achieved through different costume designs

Shakespearean Sock Puppets

Scale Model of Home

Home: The Little House on West Street LockDown Project

Houses grouped together

Printed Houses

Studio - Colour - Fitzwilliam Cupid and Psyche

Inspire 2020: Introducing Colour and Egg Tempera on a Gesso Panel

Working collaboratively

Unesco: Celebrating the Power of Making!

Minpin Birds

Flying Minpin Birds

Abstract face relief sculptures by Sharon Gale

Abstract Face – Relief Sculptures

Clay ‘Portrait’ Miniatures by Sharon Gale

Clay ‘Portrait’ Miniatures

The AccessArt village pop-up exhibition at ARU

Making the Gift of Home this Winter

Santa Comes In All Shapes and Sizes: Yr 3 Make Bouncing Santas by Jan Miller

Santa comes in all Shapes and Sizes: Yr 3 Make Bouncing Santas!

MPM_Alginate Casting

Simple Casting Techniques – by Melissa Pierce Murray

Japan: Ceramics Inspire Painting and Painting Inspires Ceramics

Japan – Ceramics Inspire Painting and Painting Inspires Ceramics

Animated Character

The Making of: “Being Creative Helps You Tackle Challenges in All Areas of Life”

Making the t-shirt

Pop-Up Puppets Inspired by a Historical Painting

5a Fruit project tiles

Fruit-Inspired Clay Tiles

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Fruit Pinch Pot Project

A selection of worry dolls

Making Worry Dolls

Sketchbook made of screen printed pages

Sketchbooks Made with Screenprinted Papers

books

A “Wallpaper” Sketchbook – Enabling Drawing by Getting Rid of the White page

triangular bowl

Wave Bowls

Andrea Butler Stitched Drawing

Make a Stitched Drawing of a House in an Hour

Carnival mask - SC

Making Paper Masks for Carnival and Mardi Gras

Ruth Purdy - Felt

Making Felt Sailing Boats by Ruth Purdy

Marbling - Ruth Purdy

Marbling for Surface Design by Ruth Purdy

To reveal the patterns

Tie Dye

Emma scores her coil ready for the next layer

Rowan: Clay Coiling Techniques to Make Penguins, Tweety Pie and a Dalek too!

Mark paints his robin's red breast

Rowan: Making a Clay Bird from a Mould

Artist Emma Sandham King working outside her studio.

Artist Studio Series: Emma Sandham King

Pupil from Milton Road Primary School makes her animal mask 3D

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week Two

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Chimera Drawings into Beautiful Terracotta Tiles

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Introducing Sgraffito using a Coloured Clay Slip on a Terracotta Tile

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Wax Resist with Coloured Inks and Sgraffito on Foamboard

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How to Roll a Clay Slab

Ingo gathers his felt together to start to form with his hands

Teenagers Make Small Sculptures: Exploring Felt-Making and Transforming Materials

green button bead paper detail

Paper Sculptures: Dipping Objects in Paper Pulp

Exploring Materials: Merino Wool and Water and Making Felt

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Exploring Materials: Paper and Water and Making Paper

Gothic Revival: Craft Techniques for the Class Room Inspired by the Leach Firm of Cambridge

Casting in plaster from a clay mould

Gilding and a ‘Touch of Gold’

‘Pouncing’: A Simple Technique to Transfer Patterns onto Plaster Tablets

Painting (and mark making) on glass

Painting on Glass

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Making Metal Badges by Maria Whetman

What you will need for Japanese Book Binding

Artist Aurora Cacciapuoti Introduces Japanese Bookbinding

Charm Bracelets

How to Make Charm Bracelets

Making Paper Bowls with Lisa Smith

Making Paper Bowls with Lisa Smith

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