Shadow drawing Week 1: We spent week 1 chasing the sunshine… or rather shadows with our pens!! Starting off in the studio with spot lights set up, we moved outside as the day got brighter and the sun started to shine. The children were encouraged to draw the shadows cast by plants from the garden, …
A big celebration of summer with Stick painting, bunting and den making Day 1: Twiggy painted forests: such fun painting hazel sticks – I ‘planted’ 3/4ft high sticks in my garden yesterday and let the little ones loose on them today. Choosing a pale background colour to start off, and depending on how quickly they …
A big celebration of summer with outdoor weaving and summer dream catchers Day 1 & 2: We started off the afternoon summer holiday session with dream catcher making. Making these involves lots of different processes – first off we tried wrapping, binding, knot tying and pom-pom making! Lovely summery colours and all finished off with …
A big celebration of summer with outdoor weaving and summer dream catchers Day 1: We started off the summer holiday session with some lovely weaving outside on my giant tapestry weaving frame. Little fingers soon got to grips with the tricky technique of pulling the back warp forwards and threading their chosen weft through. There …
Land Art with a little bit of weaving Week 3: We carried on working in a similar way to the previous 2 weeks, but this time with a twist – a woven twist to be precise! I turned our log stools into temporary weaving looms. After demonstrating some very basic weaving techniques, and a few …
Land Art with a little bit of weaving Week 3: and the final week already! We carried on working in a similar way to the previous 2 weeks, but this time with a twist – a woven twist to be precise! I turned our log stools into temporary weaving looms. After demonstrating some very basic …