Sculpture in Primary School

“Heart-Work” – A series of ‘Arts on Prescription’ style workshops for young people at Cambourne Village College with Arts and Minds; Led by Sheila Ceccarelli (Artist) and Yael Pilowsky Bankirer (Psychotherapist)

This series of workshops with students at Cambourne Village College was part of the ‘Young People’s Pilot’, coordinated and managed Arts and Minds, a leading arts and mental health charity in Cambridgeshire. The sessions were led by Sheila Ceccarelli from AccessArt (artist) and Yael Pilowsky Bankirer (Psychotherapist)

“Plasticine Models & Decorated Plinths ” Inspired by the Book ‘Dirty Beasts’ by Roald Dahl & illustrated by Quentin Blake

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Arts and Minds: Building to the Limit

Arts and Minds: Manipulating Clay with Water

This post shows how to facilitate a sensory session exploring water and clay.

Arts and Minds: Time to Introduce Ourselves – A Sculpture Challenge

Teachers Explore ‘Line and Shape’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge with AccessArt

In the spring and summer of 2016, Paula Briggs and Sheila Ceccarelli from AccessArt and Kate Noble from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge to create and deliver a series of InSET sessions (in-service-training) for primary school teachers.

Making Sculptural Interpretations of 18th Century Portraits at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

This post shares how Paula Briggs and Sheila Ceccarelli from AccessArt and Kate Noble from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, enabled teachers to explore making three dimensional interpretations of two dimensional 18th Century portraits.

Making Giant Withie Lanterns

With ‘festivals of lights’ in November and December, teenagers at AccessArt’s Experimental Drawing class had a fun time constructing giant lanterns out of withies and wet-strength tissue paper.

Make a Model Stitched House

Collage and Construction

Building and Drawing

Time to Introduce Ourselves – Initial Sculpture!

Doodling with Stuff

Paula Briggs shows how to create a safe environment fo pupils to explore a range of materials which they would be able to manipulate and transform.

The August Creative Challenge Gallery – Week Four

Supersized Jewellery

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Rio 2016! – Sporty / Sunbathing Dolls

Inspired by Rio 2016, the AccessArt Friday Club made dolls from modroc and wire, exploring costumes and personality!

Steampunk Robots: A Kitbash Sculpture Unit

This resource, by Esmé Dawson, shows the processes students went through to create a robot sculpture that could live in a steampunk world. The main technique used was ‘kitbashing;’ the art of making a sculpture by taking bits out of broken plastic toys or using found and recycled objects.

Take a Seat Gallery

Enjoy these chairs!

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

to explore constructing in mixed media and using inventiveness and innovation to create painting tools, which would later be used to paint a Communal Drawing of the River.

Making Mini Food

Making mini meals from Sculpey or Fimo clay takes good eye sight and nimble fingers! Here are some tips and tricks I have learnt along the way.