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Cardboard

Exploring Materials: Cardboard

Cardboard Objects Altogether by Tobi Meuwissen

Cheap and accessible, cardboard in all its forms provides the perfect construction material for a variety of sculptural challenges.

All resources can be adapted to suit a variety of ages and settings.

EXPLORE Cardboard...

Handpicked resources to help inspire an exploration of Cardboard

Cardboard Sculptures

Waves

Cardboard Engineering

D&T and Making Club at Milton Road Primary School, Cambridge: 40 minute Cardboard Challenge

Transformation Project

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Develop skills...

Be inspired by these projects to help develop skills and experience

Inspired by miro

miro

MAKING 'Scratch' MODELS

Eloise's 'scratch model'

Hew Locke Inspired Boats

Boat by Jan Miller

See All AccessArt Cardboard Resources

Adding Crayon To The Portrait by Tobi Meuwissen

Talking Heads

Cardboard Sketchbook by Tobi Meuwissen

Making a Cardboard Sketchbook

Portrait of Jan Brueghel I (1568-1625) and his family, by Peter Paul Rubens (Detail)

“Acts of Kindness” Workshop

Coloured beads made from clay and paper

Giant Jewellery: Multimedia Response to Yayoi Kusama

Laura McKendry egg box gargoyles

Egg Box Gargoyles

Final Ice World by Frances Hatch

Ice Worlds

Filling a care box with cardboard items.

Magic Caring Box

Two painted cardboard cups together.

Wet Strength Tissue Paper Cups

A scarf and jacket on painted cardboard.

Alternative Fashion

Jan Miller boats

Hew Locke Inspired Boats

Cardboard Objects Altogether by Tobi Meuwissen

Top Tips for Cardboard Creations

Toy with his Props by Tobi Meuwissen

Prop Making for Toys

Finished AccessArt Treehouse

Making a Treehouse

Adding scale models to a space

Charcoal Cave

Prompt Cards

AccessArt’s Prompt Cards for Making

Freyas Painting By Joanne Andrews

Still Life Compositions: Inspired by Cezanne

Making medals out of recycled materials by Jan Miller

Creativity Medals

Shaker sticks made from bells and sticks

Making Musical Instruments

Ice-cream cone shaped sculptures by Julia Rigby

Dropped Cone Sculptures with Julia Rigby

Final Packaging Together by Tobi Meuwissen

Redesigning Food Packaging

Using a printing press by Karen Wicks

Printmaking using Packaging

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Roots & Shoots: A Sculptural Challenge

Observing the colours through the prism

Nature Kaleidoscope

getting the paints ready

Get Connected! Cardboard Robots with Movable Joints

Houses grouped together

Printed Houses

Working collaboratively

Unesco: Celebrating the Power of Making!

Lighting up the miniworld

Mini World Light Boxes

Abstract face relief sculptures by Sharon Gale

Abstract Face – Relief Sculptures

'Painting' with Plasticine by Sharon Gale

‘Painting’ with Plasticine

David Parr House, Cambridge

David Parr House – “What’s Your Space?”

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Pimp That Snack! Large Scale Food Sculptures

9AB 052

Sculpture from Sculpture

"Colourful and Crazy"

Sculptures with Personality, Inspired by Anglo Saxon Houses

Mini figures

Making a Pocket Gallery

Collagraph plate inspired by inside Amphis

Collagraphs Inspired by Architecture

Under the Water Mirrors - SC - Ridgefield

Under the Ocean Mirrors

Questioning the canvas

Questioning the Canvas

The wire was then attache dvia modroc to the band

Supersized Jewellery

Hands

Brushes, Rollers and Dabbers – Year 4 Pupils Use Mixed Media to Make Mark Making Tools

Shadow Puppets at Bourn Primary Academy

Shadow Puppets and Whiteboards

Andy Mckenzie working with students from AccessArt's Experimental Drawing Class, Cambridge

Making Collographs with Andy Mckenzie: Week One

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Perseverance, Determination and Inventiveness: Building Nests

Developing a group of drawings - student goes on to switch between processes and drawings

Water and Rock: Teenagers explore building drawings with graphite and modroc

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

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

Lepeord

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

Simple methods to create drama

Shipwrecked! A Shadow Puppet Play by Children Aged 10

flower figure 7

Paperback Figures: Collaged, Relief Sculptures

Finished work by Derek

Red to Green: Wax Resist and Scraffito

40 Minute Cardboard and Double-Sided Sticky Tape Engineering Challenge

Hedgehog

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Articulated Beasts

Finished articulated lion by Innes

Articulated and Animated Drawings by Teenagers at AccessArt’s Experimental Drawing Class

Using colour and form instinctively

Paint, Colour and Autobiographical Imagery

My house - cardboard construction project

My House – A Cardboard Construction Project

Home, special toys, and a portrait to reflect love of art

Autobiographical Suitcase Pop-Up Gallery

nicola mcgovern: puffin mobile

Priscilla the Puffin: Make a Simple Bird Mobile

alexleadbeater

Making and Drawing Birds

cardboard detail 6b

Transformation Project: Cardboard and….

scrap store ribbon

A Wealth of Materials in Scrapstores

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Making Sea Sculptures at Culford School, Suffolk

Make a Sketchbook, Ideas Book or Travel Journal this Summer!

birds detail with stamp1

Inspired by Joseph Cornell: Making a Decorative Aviary Box

A Model Studio by Susie Olczak

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Making a Collagraph Print by Suzie Mackenzie

Printmaking with Salvaged Sticky Back Aluminium Foil, Mixed Media and Cardboard

The Museum of Penguins

Miniature Matchbox Museums by Anna Linch

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Flat Yet Sculptural? Drawing, Collage, Construction

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Transformation Project: Snippets of Inspiration

Using Negative Space to Believe What You See ( & Scaling Up)

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Jo Allen and Rachael Causer: Relief Printmaking at Ridgefield Primary School

Cordelia "Doo" Spalding

Literacy Boost Project: James & the Giant Peach Garden by Cordelia Spalding

Shanty Town Studios

5 Exercises by Henry Ward

Cutting into the surface and stitching over layers

Creating Decorative Designs From Birds: Mark Making, Texture and Pattern by Andrea Butler

Details of Emma’s Landscape Relief Exemplar

Layers in the Landscape by Emma Davies

Students are encouraged to experiment with texture and line while mark making on their acetate

VIVID Young Creatives: Hannah Webb and Anne Struebel at Witchford Village College

Relationship of sculpture to collage

Inspired by Miro – Collage, Automatic Drawing, & Sculpture

Seated figure

Year 4 Sculpture Project (ages 8 and 9)

Lunchtime at the post office

Post Office by Rosalie Schweiker: An Interactive Community Art Project

birds

Drawing with Wire: The Polymeric Approach by Julie de Bastion

final detail

Scraperboard Woodcut Lookalikes

Thinking and Making

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