Perseverance, Determination and Inventiveness: Building Nests
By Paula Briggs
Year 4 pupils from Comberton Village College and Cambourne Village College feeder schools met for a Gifted and Talented Sculpture Masterclass led by AccessArt at Bourn Primary Academy. The session centred around an exploration of the materials and construction methods we might use to build inventive, sculptural nests.
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ellie somerset
March 19, 2016 @ 5:51 pm
Lovely. I love the open ended construction approach – transferrable to many sculptural activities – love also the lead to empathic reasoning – becoming a bird before making the nest. We have been making felt in the little Art studio in Sheffield and having made flat felt I wanted to offer the children the possibility of making carded sheeps’ wool into a 3d one piece object – very like a nest. In fact, the wet felted bowls which were the final outcome did become their nests for chocolate bunnies to arrive into… a challenging construction with a less open outcome than Paula’s here – but nevertheless one that involves young minds expanding as they play with the material and understand the means and methods of construction… Ellie – artist educator at the little art studio in Sheffield
Sheila, AccessArt
March 21, 2016 @ 12:04 pm
Love this Ellie! Gorgeous! Please do share how you did it with AccessArt if you have the time!
🙂 Sheila
ellie somerset
April 6, 2016 @ 10:24 am
will do! 🙂