Tile painting
We used bright coloured Acrylic paint to put the finishing touches to our clay tiles We uses tiny brushes to get paint into all the nooks and crannies! We had to be VERY careful not to mix colours and think about the order that we added the colour. This is how they turned out. […]
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- Mar, 31, 2014
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Happy Mother’s Day from Children’s Art School
Children at Merton Park Primary School made Mother’s Day cards out of their very own printed personalised logo. Mum’s received a personalised card created by their own child…much nicer than anything bought in the shops we hope! We think it’s always better to create rather than consume!
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- Mar, 30, 2014
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3D Logo
This week children transferred an idea for their own personalised logo onto a clay tile. We used rolling guides to roll out a tile of equal thickness. We cut it to the shape we wanted. We carved our design and sculpted some parts in relief We used our logo designs to help […]
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- Mar, 21, 2014
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Toy stories 2
At Merton Park Primary School work on compiling our comic strips began. We cut out our photographed scenes and sequenced into a simple zig-zag book adding speech, thought bubbles and a simple narrative. The […]
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- Feb, 07, 2014
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Toy stories
Last week children at Merton Park Primary School used toys to create stories, and experimented with collage techniques to use in a backdrop. This week we completed our backdrop and developed a storyboard from which to sequence our scenes. We photographed each stage as […]
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- Jan, 31, 2014
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Creative play and story building
I have long been fascinated by the way children play, build their own scenes and create stories as they go. I often look at the remnants of my children’s play and imagine scripts for many a story or film. It saddens me to see creative play lessening in the lives of our children with the intoxicating […]
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- Jan, 24, 2014
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Objects and Abstract
Children played with objects to create faces, thinking about shape colour and mood. They drew around the objects and used oil pastels to create bright abstract portraits
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- Jan, 17, 2014
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Blind Portraits
The Children in our new club at Merton Park Primary School introduced themselves by drawing each other blindfolded. We stared at each other for 2 minutes looking closely at our features. It was hard not to giggle! We then blindfolded each other and drew what we could remember. We didn’t have to worry what […]
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- Jan, 17, 2014
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