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.

Mural is completed!

We were delighted to arrive at the nursery on Thursday evening to a room full of happy faces and a thank you card from the children. We asked them all about their favourite parts of the mural and who they would like to be. Not one of them would have changed anything about it and before we left they presented us with flowers and chocolates to thank us!

What a brilliant project with a wonderful group of people. HUGE thanks to the Rawlins students who painted this amazing piece and the staff and children at Little Apples Day Nursery on Cossington Road in Sileby.

Fantasy Mural at Sileby Day Nursery

Mural IN PROGRESS....3 fabulously talented and dedicated A Level Art students have been working with me on this wall mural!!

Arts Award at Rawlins

www.artsaward.org.uk

I am so happy to report that ARTS AWARD is bigger and better than ever this year, providing opportunities for more students than ever!

I am running courses in Bronze Award and Silver Award with a take up of aproximately 30 students in total. There are three slots in the week to choose from and it is open to everyone and anyone who would like to be. An arts award is a Nationally recognised qualification and encourages young people to be involved in the arts through participation, consumerism and skills sharing.