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 letter rack
- great gift for an adult
Clay slab box - upper KS2
Clay tealight holder - cross curricular R.E
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
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.
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
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
Autumn leaf printed picture - 3yrs+ *NEW October 2008*
Block printing- very effective 3yrs+
Clay thumb pot - no oven required
Clay tile - cross curricular to Science work on materials
Mono printing -
very effective from 4yrs+
Paper weaving KS1 - very effective
Press printing - printing is great
Spray painting - quick and effective
Stepping Stone -
make a memorable garden path, age 3 and upwards
Stringed instruments -
earmuffs at the ready
Summer Garden picture
collage
Table top printing - introduction to press printing for early
years
Torn Paper Pictures - art from torn paper
Weaving on a twig -
supports K.U.W, C.D
& C.L.L
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