Visual Arts Planning: Cardboard and Paper

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AccessArt is looking at the life-cycle of materials and aims to lower the environmental impact of the activities we’re encouraging.

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Wembley Lion (Cardboard) by Faith Bebbington

Explore Cardboard and Paper resources

Thinking 3 Dimensionally with cardboard

Staff explore making cardboard sculptures

Wet Strength Tissue Paper Cups

Construct cups from cardboard and wet-strength tissue paper

Cardboard engineering challenge

Challenge pupils to make cardboard stand up

My house: a cardboard construction

Transform cardboard into a home

Kinetic mobiles

Introduce and make kinetic mobiles

THE 1KG CHALLENGE

Making a cardboard structure to hold a 1kg weight

Make a weight-bearing construction

Layers in the landscape

interpreting landscape through cardboard contruction

Interpret the landscape through cardboard sculptures

Cardboard and jewellery

Explore simple design and construction

Get Connected! Cardboard robots

Making a cardboard robot with movable joints

Make a robot using scrap cardboard and split pins

Paperback Figures

Using old paperback books to make figurative sculptures

Use second-hand books as creative material

Making 'sketch' models

Introduce concepts behind designing theatre sets

Make a simple bird mobile

Make a whole flock of puffins

Hew Locke Inspired Boats

Draw and make boats from recycled materials

Inspired by miro

Collage, drawing and sculpture inspired Miro

Egg Box Gargoyles

Make inventive gargoyles using discarded egg boxes

Alternative fashion

Create a fashion school and design unique clothes

Ice Worlds

Create an ice world above and below the waterline

magic caring box

Create items for a ‘Magic Caring Box

Talking with your hands

Explore gestures and non-verbal expression

Talking Heads

Create a self-portrait and share a message

Making a cardboard sketchbook

Use charcoal to explore mark-making and depth

Painted Pots and sculptural plants

Explore plants through a variety of materials

An Introduction to Sculpture

Explore sculpture inspired by Wassily Kandinksy

Giant Jewellery: Multimedia Response to Yayoi Kusama

Be inspired by the colours and patterns of Kusama

making tips & tricks

Develop material literacy with this video

Adapting AccessArt: 2d to 3d

Develop pupils' 'Design Through Making' skills

3D drawing with paper

Explore manipulating paper into sculptures

Paper Puzzle Purse - part 1

Create an origami puzzle purse

Paper puzzle purse - part 2

Make a hidden drawing inside a puzzle purse

Turkish Map Fold

Create books using the Turkish map fold

glimpses and folds

Create lots of hidden drawings

Concertina landscape

Create a mixed-media landscape

CHARCOAL COLLAGE: COAL MINES

Use charcoal to explore mark-making and depth

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