Golden Time ideas - art and craft

Upper KS1 and KS2

Background paint techniques create paint effects, all key stages

Book Making - always enjoyable.

Bird Fat Pecker - feed the birds in the winter

Cd case picture frame - cross curricular DT

Celtic patterns - step by step pictures to make patterns, good for thinking skills

Clay coil pot 

Clay letter rack - great gift for an adult

Clay slab box - upper KS2

Clay tealight holder - cross curricular R.E

Computer art Mondrian style

Egg bods - make a little person from an egg

Embossing - make impressions of objects using foil

Finger knitting 4 fingers - wet lunchtime, on the playground, on the coach, all you need is some wool and 2 hands. Upper KS2 

Finger knitting 2 fingers - easier than 4 fingers, suitable for younger KS2

Finger knitting double yarn - more advanced

Hieroglyphic message  and hieroglyph alphabet an alphabet with easy to draw symbols

Illuminated letters - make a quill and write like the anglo saxons

King Tut's death mask - make a recycled replica

Marbling technique

Mini origami book -  minimal preparation

Mini propagator - grow something and recycle at the same time

Padded picture frame - recycle your boxes and old jackets to frame a favourite photo - upper KS2

Paper making - recycle old paper and make some new!

Paper Pots - recycle newspaper and grow a plant

Paper weaving KS2 - take it further

Patterns dyed onto fabric - starch resist technique

Press printing - not just for the young 'uns.

Polystyrene press printing recycle polystyrene sheets KS1 &2

Rainbow Fish Picture - dye fabric using starch resist technique

SpongeBob Squarepants - make this cute little model -upper KS2

Spray painted picture - follows on from KS1

Stepping stone - great activity for a school gardening club

Story Cube - a 3d book with a model inside -KS2

Teaching observational painting- how to get perfect results!

Tutankhamen sarcophagus - collect your chocolate wrappers and make this shiny replica, KS2

Undersea print and paper cut picture - very Matisse

Weaving on a plate - free weaving in KS1

Weaving on a rectangular loom - KS2

Weaving on a round loom - KS2

Weaving with natural materials - supports QCA 2B Mother Nature Designer

Willow pattern plate - supports QCA unit Journeys

Wool winding - make patterns or backgrounds for pictures