Tag: Art and Design

Designing and Making a Safari

Today we designed our own animal safari park as part of our animal topic. We started by designing it on paper and then built it using various different resources, including wooden blocks, lego, stickle bricks and cardboard. We thought hard about how to make our…

Lion Artwork

Today we looked at various different books by Eric Carle. We looked at the way that he creates different animal collages. We focused on the book ‘1, 2, 3, Zoo’ and looked at the lion collage. We then created our own lion collages inspired by Eric Carle’s lion.

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Christmas Hats!

This year, we decided to make our own Christmas crackers and hats - as well as reducing our plastic waste, it was a lot of fun! 

African Kente Cloth 

As part of our history topic, Africa, we have been looking at Kente Cloths - they are traditionally made from thin strips that are woven together on narrow looms. We made ours using card, paint, wool and glue. Don't they look fantastic?

VE Day

The Second World War ended on 8th May, 1945 in Europe when the German Army signed the armistice, surrendering to the allies. Britain had fought for six long years and suffered tremendously due to enemy bombing, rationing, loss of soldiers and the effects of the second total war.

When…

Messerschmitts and Spitfires

After learning all about the Battle of Britain, we were very intrigued about the different types of planes that flew for each side. German Messerschmitts were used by the German Luftwaffe to attack Britain, and British Spitfires were used by the British Air Force to…

Abstract Space Art

We have finished our space masterpieces this week where we have added the final touches to our abstract art designs! Please come in and have a closer look at our 'space gallery' in the Key Stage 2 cloakroom!

Take a closer look at our photos in our photo…

Autumn Art

We thoroughly enjoyed painting our versions of 'spooky' trees ready for the PTA Halloween disco on Friday! We can't wait to see our designs decorating the village hall. We paid particular attention to our water colour backgrounds to create the required atmosphere and then…

Christmas has come early!

Christmas has once again come early in Class 4 as we created our amazing designs for the Cauliflower Christmas Cards 2019! Here is a sneaky look at some of our art work where we focused this year on the artistic style of 'Pointillism'. This is a technique of…

Abstract Space Art

Class 4 were inspired by the artist  Peter Thorpe today, basing our Space artwork on his finished pieces. Our aim is to produce an abstract art background with a space feature in the foreground. Today we planned our initial ideas and then perfected our abstract…

Boats

Today we looked at some famous paintings of boats on the sea. We then painted our own picture. We started by painting the sky. We then painted the sea in green. After the green sea had dried, we painted over the top in blue. Next, we used a lollypop stick to create waves.

The final…

Art Afternoon

This afternoon we decided to do some artwork to make our class reading garden more inviting. We used finger painting to create some colourful butterflies and leaves. We had to make sure that the butterflies were symmetrical. We also made some collage flowers using card and tissue…