Welcome to the first-ever AccessArt Art Week for ages 5 to 11!
This summer we’d like to entice you to join the first ever AccessArt Art Week!
Our chosen title this year is “Flourish”. All the activities offered in the art week centre around an exploration and celebration of growth – growth in the natural world – and growth in ourselves as individuals too. Through the AccessArt Art Week we want to help every child understand how art can help us flourish 🙂
The Art Week is designed for ages 5 to 11. It’s fully flexible so you choose activities which will suit your school / setting, and fit in with your timetable.
Best of all, it’s completely free to take part in the AccessArt Art Week for all AccessArt members! So please join us – whether you are a school, home educator, family, or artist educator working in a community setting!
Find out more about the AccessArt “Flourish” Art week
Browse the Art Week Activities
The First Step! Plan Your Art Week…
Find all the recommended activities and how to choose them on this page.
When you choose your activities, think carefully about how you can adapt the resources to best suit your teachers, pupils, school and curriculum. Be inventive and creative – and keep energy and aspiration high!
Browse the activities!
Find a session recording of the AccessArt Art Week Zoom event
We ran an online session to talk you through some practical pointers about running an art week. Find the recording with useful links here.
Brief Teachers, Pupils and Parents, and Collect Materials…
As soon as you have dates for your art week, and you have chosen your activities, then build excitement by telling pupils and parents of your plans.
We know budgets for art materials are always tight, so start collecting recycled materials as far in advance as you can (things like paper and card) and make a list of other materials which you think parents might be able to help with.
If your school allows, create a rota for parents to come in to help – art weeks always need as many hands on deck as possible!
Enjoy the Art week & Celebrate your Outcomes!
The art week will generate lots of mess (creative mess!) and energy, so it’s always a great idea to make sure that you can clear the spaces you have been working in, and display the work. When you create your pop-up galleries don’t worry about investing in any kind of equipment or frames, instead be inventive and embrace all stages of the journey, creating displays of sketchbooks alongside finished work. Try to capture the energy of the week in your exhibition.
Make time for people outside school to see the work. Think about inviting in parents and even the local community. Celebrating the enthusiasm as well as outcomes is really important and helps show the value of art in schools.
And finally, before you send the work home, make sure you document everything. As teacher, you can take photos of work in progress (including lots of photos of hands making and smiley faces!), but you will also want to get photographs of finished artwork (and don’t forget children can be tasked with taking photos too – its’ a great skill for them to practice).
Please remember to tag @accessart (Facebook) and @accessart.org.uk (Instagram) so we can share your work!
taking photos of 3d artwork
displaying sketchbooks
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