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.
Sculpture in Primary School
Perseverance, Determination and Inventiveness: Building Nests
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.
Astronaut Paper Body Casts by Gillian Adair McFarland
A non messy, big impact project in a day on the theme of space exploration to fit with Tim Peake going to the International Space Station.
Water and Rock: Teenagers explore building drawings with graphite and modroc
Teenagers look at pieces of chalk and flint and explore the physicality of rocks and geological processes with graphite and plaster.
Barbie & Ken Transformation
This adaptable resource shares how we transformed Barbie dolls using paper, fabric, modroc and paint. We had great fun researching and designing costumes and exploring appropriate materials. By Paula Briggs
Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week Three
This was the third and final session in a series of ‘Animal Parade’ workshops for children at Making Club at Milton Road Primary School where children painted their finished masks
Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week Two
This was the second session in a series of three ‘Animal Parade’ workshops, where children at Making Club at Milton Road Primary School, made 3D animal masks.
After having chosen their animals and created unique designs based on their Carnival Mask Templates in week one, children now attempted to cut and staple their creations to make them three dimensional.
Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week One
To use our Carnival Mask Template to create animal masks for an Animal Parade at the end of this half term.
Long Legged Animals by Years 3 & 4 Making Club
Year three and four pupils explore making their own sculptures and to take on sculptural challenges like how to construct with a variety of materials, including Modroc, and (most importantly) how to make their creations stand.
Paperback Figures: Collaged, Relief Sculptures
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Red to Green: Making Sculpture
I wanted students to be pushed to explore how to make a free standing sculpture encompassing modern sculptural principles of form, shape and balance, yet with an accessible and tangible approach to working.
Red to Green: Patterns in Nature, Line and Wire
using drawing as a way into exploring designs and patterns in nature, followed by a making session using wire to extend ideas into 3D
Aspire to Create: Inspired by Nature & Empowered by Creativity – Red to Green
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 […]
Red to Green: Casting
day one of AccessArt’s six day residency at Red2Green mark making into clay, mould making and casting
3D Drawing with Paper: Texture – Surface – Structure
Artist Andrea Butler sets teenagers the challenge to create 3D forms from sheets of paper experimenting with structure and texture using manipulation techniques.
Years 3 and 4 D&T and Making Club
A collection of resources by Sheila Ceccarelli based on her Brilliant Makers Club for year three and four pupils at Milton Road Primary School, Cambridge. Children were encouraged to experiment, think and engineer creative solutions by working on simple projects, with individual and independently generated outcomes.
40 Minute Cardboard and Double-Sided Sticky Tape Engineering Challenge
This workshop was all about getting year three and four Brilliant Makers at Milton Road Primary School to think about the biggest challenge for any maker: how to make something stand up.
How to Make a Simple Origami Bird by Melanie Johns
Melanie Johns suggests using origami to transform old artwork. It’s an exciting way of using less successful drawings or paintings on paper to produce a new creative outcome, in the form of a personalised paper sculpture.
My House – A Cardboard Construction Project
These autobiographical architectural sculptures use corrugated cardboard, laid in strips on their side, to create sculptures designed to be peered in to!