Thema: Arts & Crafts

For the Sharing the Ocean unit, grade 4  made drawings of various ocean animals, cut them out and inserted them into a cardboard diorama painted to represent the deep layers of the ocean. Then using cardboard, paper mache and paint, they created an ocean animal of their choice in 3D. ...

For the Sharing the Planet  - Consumer Choices unit, grade 3 looked at concepts of responsible consumption, the Pop Art of Andy Warhol and some collage works which worked with popular consumer products and advertising imagery. We also looked at the graphic design (typography, colour choices and layout) of advertising ...

For the Creativity unit, grade 2 looked at the dream inspired images of Marc Chagall, then created their own image that was divided into parts representing a human face, an animal head and the imagined dreams corresponding to each of the human and the animal. We also looked at various ...

For the transport unit, pupils made drawings and collages of vehicles before constructing their own 3d airplanes and an imagined future vehicle from recycled cardboard and plastic materials. Each vehicle was painted in detail with bright colours. [gallery columns="4" link="file" ids="6677,6676,6674,6672,6678,6680,6681,6682,6684,6685,6687,6691,6690,6688,6686,6679"]  

For the urban planning unit, students discussed what features make up a city and where best they should be located. We looked at some artist representations of town and city plans and students worked in small groups to make their own city images. Some were able to go far enough ...

For the unit on Birds, students worked on observation and drawing skills, considering shape, texture, tone and colour while trying to draw birds from books and images. Subsequently they made their own colourful bird masks from cut out feather shaped pieces of paper glued onto a mask template. [gallery columns="4" ...

Grade 4 did a short activity taking 3 pieces of cut up maps and sticking them to a white background. They then had to test their colour mixing skills to blend the fragments together and create the map of a larger imaginary land. [gallery columns="4" link="file" ids="5553,5552,5542,5545,5547,5548,5549,5544,5543,5546,5550,5580"]

For the simple machines unit, students looked at the mechanics of old style machines and artworks that were made based on industrial machine technology. They then made their own works - both 2d and 3d - inspired by machine imagery. [gallery columns="4" link="file" ids="5247,5246,5245,5244,5243,5242,5241,5240,5259,5258,5257,5256,5255,5254,5253,5252,5251,5250,5249,5248"]

Taking inspiration from the abstracted features seen in African tribal masks, students used a face mask as the basis for collages and prints that also worked with concepts of symmetry, balance and positive and negative space. [gallery columns="4" link="file" ids="5534,5381,5380,5527,5535,5529,5531,5530,5536,5537,5532,5526,5528,5533"]

After looking at the coloured circle paintings of Wassily Kandinsky and his other abstract work, students were asked to try to draw and paint to create works in a similar style. We also looked at the coloured paper collages by Henri Matisse and again students tried to create their own ...