Clay nativity

And for the true meaning of Christmas...many children made adorable clay nativity scenes with us at Christmas Art Camp.

Have a happy and peaceful Christmas from me and all of the staff and children that make happy art and craft activities across the Loughborough area.

I am now going to enjoy a short break with my family for Christmas xxxxxxxx

Origami pixie boots- a Hayley favourite!

Almost my favourite activity ever, and it really caught on at Christmas art camp! I know you are all out there making these from napkins!

Pine cone table centrepieces

Felt stockings

Almost everyone made these carefully sewn stockings for their trees. Here are a couple of fine examples! Well done kids!

Pine cone wreaths

1. make a wire circle
2. tie pine cones to it with raffia
3. add ribbon

Easy and beautiful!

Christmas Art Camp 2010

We have now finished sweeping up the glitter in the art rooms at Rawlins, after an amazing two day Christmas crafts event. Between 20 and 30 children attended, aged between 5 and 13, making all manner of Christmas items, from felt stockings to pine cone candle holders. Look out for photos to follow!

and HAPPY, HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Caricature workshop at Hind Leys

Last night I did a caricature workshop at Hind Leys with a drawing club, and staff. It was hilarious, as I drew everyone and everyone drew each other. Using two marker pens, one thick, one thin, and a stick of charcoal, it is amazing how you can achieve a likeness for someone. Capturing facial features and uniqueness doesn't have to be insulting, but what we look like is always something to celebrate. Thanks to all the good sports who are now immortalised on their teacher's wall at Hind Leys!!

Christmas Art camp activities schedule

Hello all,

As Rawlins prepares to close for Christmas, me and my art camp team are gearing up for a very busy two days! After some shopping and discussions over mugs of tea, the following schedule is our guideline for activities. Should be lots of fun!!!!


Wednesday:

1. clay (tea light holders, nativity scenes)
2. glitter printing
3. angels (made from pipe cleaners and beads)
4. cut out snowflakes
5. Christmas origami

Thursday:

1. Quilled window hangings
2. pine cone table centrepieces, wreaths and/or tree decorations
3. Felt sewn stockings
4. burnished silver gifts tags
5. Santa beards

Extra activities will include:

angel puppets, snow pictures on black card, wax resist snow pictures, stained glass windows, gift boxes, gift tags, Christmas cards

Glitter printing at Rawlins after school club

For our last session before Christmas we decided to make a real mess of the art room and put into practice a fantastically Christmassy activity- glitter printing. The technique involves block printing with water based printing ink onto a variety of surfaces and quickly sprinkling glitter and/or white sand onto the ink while it's wet. This causes the glitter and/or sand to stick and gives a very effective result. Try this with potato prints and acrylic paint if you don't have the equipment I have suggested.

We made Christmas cards, gift tags and gift boxes!

Christmas Origami workshop

Any origami can be Christmas origami! What was a water bomb became a bauble and what was a Ninja star became a tree topper!

Cut away snowflakes

~*ChRiStMaS aRt cAmP! *~

For the first time ever I am doing Christmas Art Camp. Book online at www.rawlinscollege.org.uk

Me and Amy are running two fun filled, craft packed days on Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd of December from 10am to 4pm.

Come and sew Christmas stockings, make table centrepieces for the Christmas lunch, create amazing tree decorations, gift tags, Christmas wreaths and much more.

£14.50 per day for ages 5 and up.

For any queries, call me on 01509 622817

How to make burnished silver gift tags and tree decs

Need: silver take-away lid, pencil, hole punch, black poster paint, ribbon or pipe cleaner, scissors

1. Draw an image onto the silver lid. Push down hard with the pencil so that the drawing is indented
2. Cut the picture out, leaving a gap all the way round it
3. Carefully hole punch the top
4. Drip a little black poster paint onto a plate and dip your finger in. Rub the paint into the indentations of your drawing. Keep rubbing in all directions until the effect of burnished silver is achieved
5. Thread your ribbon or pipe cleaner through the hole. This can now be used for a tree decoration or a gift tag!

Animation project

Year 4's have become expert animators this week at Highgate school in Sileby. Creating storyboards and amazing sets from paper, card and home-made playdough (thanks Mrs P!) they worked in groups with Rawlins' imacs and cameras to produce animations about Pompeii. What a lovely week!

Snowflakes

Is anything more Christmassy than these cut-out snowflakes? I have done these with pretty much every group of children I have seen this week!

http://hayleyferncaricatures.blogspot.com/

I have started a new blog and this is a quick mention in case you want to have a look! It's me as a caricaturist rather than community artist!

Rawlins Christmas Craft Fair THIS SUNDAY!

This Sunday from 10.30 to 4.30 it's Rawlins'



craft fair!!!!!! I am doing FREE craft activities including making a Christmas tree decoration out of pine cones AND gift boxes. What's to stay in for?? See you all there!!

Pudsey Bear face painting!

As modelled by my gorgeous daughter (at 8am this morning!)

Nature boxes created by Quorn children's art group

Recycling plastic boxes and decorating them with pressed leaves from St. Bartholomew's school garden was the task on Wednesday after school. My lovely 15 strong group had carefully selected leaves which had been pressed and went to work crafting small boxes from donations made from an office clear out. This fine example shows how attractive the Autumn colours and textures were.

Arts Award student has jewellery in shop window!

Charlotte Noon, 18, has had a range of her hand made jewellery bought by 'Libby's' in Quorn. In a stunning shop front display, her red necklace looks incredible. We are so incredibly proud of her!

World art gets all fine arty!

Huge acrylic painting by one of our lovely art club group (on her 8th birthday no less!). It's amazing what we get done in just one hour!!!!

Seagrave Globe is complete (except for installation!)

This huge metal globe is incredibly difficult to do justice with a camera. The scale and detail are incredible but hard to see here. It is going to be erected at the front of Seagrave Village Primary school very soon with an exciting launch event. The children who made is are aged just 7 to 11 years and their hard work has created this ball of stories and images which tell of their global links and world-wide friendships.

Seagrave globe project begins!

The ingredients of this project:

Ten gifted and talented children aged 7 to 11. One steel frame. Many metres of assorted wire. Imagination.

This huge, ambitious sculpture is going to depict Seagrave's multi-cultural links. The children are designing and making wire drawings of all kinds of images related to the theme. I am wiring them all onto a globe.

Wish us luck! Continues on Monday...

Rustic, cultural clay tiles

World Art week two:

These tiles are made from layering air dry clay onto large ceramic tiles. The children looked at relief images from Africa and India and recreated them. They used wooden beads to decorate.

Wild flower nature reserve created by group

This week we learnt about wild flowers and the fact that they are often preserved in this country on grass verges. We looked at books and talked about what we knew about them. Then we all worked together to create a grass verge full of flowers. It got wild, with 15 participants and piles of tissue paper, but amazingly, here is the wonderful result!

World art is launched!

My new after school club 'WORLD ART' takes inspiration from art and craft traditions from around the world. To launch to club tonight, we looked at carnivals and masks from Italy, Africa, Mexico and Beijing.

Some of the participants are here displaying their masks....

Art, nature and the environment

Inspiration is taken from trees, plants, birds and insects for this new after school club at St Bartholomew's Primary school in Quorn. 15 participants aged from 7 to 11 this week studied local bugs and carefully painted them in detail onto pebbles.

Puppets!

These simple stick and ball puppets provided the opportunity for children to express different ideas about character and personality. They had a whole table of fabric scraps to choose from and spent some of the day deciding on who would take which role in a collaborative play. The end result was hilarious and so entertaining, including children as young as 5 working with 10 year olds on the same show.

Spider webs

This activity is loosly based on the Mexican 'God's Eye' weaving tradition, except we made it look like a spider web. The sticks are black painted dowelling and the web is purple wool. The spider is made from a painted paper spun ball with wire for legs (taped on with black tape) and the eyes are fake jewels, glued.

Monday Art Camp

Art camp: day 1. Not that many kids today (I think a lot of people are on holiday), which made for a really calm and creative atmosphere. We merged groups and the first activity was 'Cloaks and daggers' which included making cloaks to wear and painting swords or daggers onto acrylic board, with elements of foil to create silver effects.

Later, we all made Solomon's Rings and pendants- very stately and colourful! We finished with hanging pumpkin faces to display in our windows.

Tomorrow we are planning some clay and candle work as well as a sewing afternoon!

Happy days!

ART CAMP ART CAMP ART CAMP ART CAMP

YES, art camp starts again on Monday..phew- it's half term already?

This 5 day event promises to be packed full of amazing activities, from dragon's heart string staffs to celestrial pillow making and silhouette light displays to Arthur's legendary sword paintings. There will be something for everyone: a chance to experiment with many kinds of materials and ideas in the creative environment of an art room at Rawlins. All of the staff are dedicated artists and workshop leaders.

Children can come on a day only basis and enrol online in advance. Just go onto Rawlins Community College's website and follow the links.