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.
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.
Teenagers look at pieces of chalk and flint and explore the physicality of rocks and geological processes with graphite and plaster.
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
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
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.
To use our Carnival Mask Template to create animal masks for an Animal Parade at the end of this half term.
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.
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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.
using drawing as a way into exploring designs and patterns in nature, followed by a making session using wire to extend ideas into 3D
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 […]
day one of AccessArt’s six day residency at Red2Green mark making into clay, mould making and casting
Artist Andrea Butler sets teenagers the challenge to create 3D forms from sheets of paper experimenting with structure and texture using manipulation techniques.
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.
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.
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.
These autobiographical architectural sculptures use corrugated cardboard, laid in strips on their side, to create sculptures designed to be peered in to!
In this workshop teenagers played with sculptural ideas around building form and mass, tension and scale by combining materials from Scrap Stores.
This resource shares how 8, 9 and 10 year old children created a home for all of their sculptures and paintings in the form of a cardboard suitcase which doubled up as a pop-up gallery.
