By Paula Briggs

The brand new AccessArt Friday Club spent a happy six weeks meeting every Friday evening for one hour. The Friday Club takes place in a small summerhouse, and as the nights drew in and it was dark outside and cosy inside, we decided to turn the summerhouse into a theatre and make a shadow puppet play.

Shipwrecked! Shadow Puppet Play

Inline with the aims of the Friday Club, the sessions were largely directed by the children themselves, giving them plenty of time and space to explore their ideas, and work together in a creative collaboration.

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Pathway: Shadow Puppets

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Talking Points: Cut Outs

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Session Recording: Making Shadow Puppets

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Collaging with Wax Crayon Rubbings

One: Casting

Exploring mark making into wet clay, mould making, mixing and pouring plaster

Two: Patterns in Nature, Line and Wire

Using drawing to look at designs and patterns in nature to inspire the creation of wire sculpture

Three: Taking Rubbings and Making Compositions

Recording the surrounding world by taking rubbings

Four: Block Printing

Learners are introduced to block printing

Five: Monoprinting

Exploring texture, pattern and mark making through monoprinting

Six: Steps to Observational Drawing

Four steps to enabling observational drawing

Seven: Making Sculpture

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Eight: Wax Resist and Scraffito

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

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