This year it was 100 years since the ANZAC soldiers landed at Gallipoli, Turkey, during World War 1.  Our thoughts were with soldiers and their families from all the countries involved in the conflict. Our students used mixed media to create a picture of the battle fields  at Flanders (France) at the end of the war. They were particularly keen to add the brilliant red poppies which grow in the fields there and which are mentioned in the famous poem.

Our wintry weather has been the ideal time to have our Grade 3 and 5 students make creatures using woolen threads.The Grade 3 students wound pompoms and decorated them using joggle eyes, felt and beads. The older students used drinking straw looms ( we used 8 straws) to weave fabric which was folded, sewn, stuffed and decorated to create weird and wonderful creatures. These two look like they could be friends. Do you have names for them?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Grade 5 “Non-Campers” made  characters from brightly coloured woolen threads which they wove onto drinking-straw looms. This activity took a lot of concentration and effort so I think they did a great job in a relatively short time. Congratulations everyone!

 

Our Grade 3 students used 3 sheets of newspaper, a cardboard roll, masking tape and wallpaper paste to create paper mache “Monster” puppets.  The puppets were painted with water colour paints and coated with glitter paint before being dressed in bold fabrics and threads. Each will have a story to tell. I hope to publish some “Monster adventures” on this blog soon.

 

  

Our Foundation Students were very busy  during Term 1 creating their version of the book “What makes a rainbow?” It was a mixed media activity using water colour painting, collage and stamping and including skill development in tearing, cutting and pasting, brush use and colour mixing. Congratulations to their Art teacher, Mrs Klepkas, for her ideas and the photography and to all the Foundation students for their great art work.

Our Grade 3 students were inspired by an exercise in Carla Sonheim’s book “Drawing Imaginary Animals”. They drew curved lines across their paper  many times before searching for the “creatures” hidden there.

This year’s Paper Mache masks were different from those done in previous years even though the Grade 6 students looked through photographs of masks on, Google Images,  Pinterest and on our Blog. They were completely absorbed by the process and are to be congratulated upon their achievements. I am disappointed that I didn’t obtain titles for the masks. Hopefully they will let me know via a Blog comment. All the best for Secondary School next year everyone.

 

Our Foundation students have just completed a Mixed Media work based around a cardboard castle. I couldn’t find the black food dye so our castles ended up being very colourful and this was a great idea. Grey would have been dull in comparison. Collage princes, princesses, kings, queens, knights and dragons all made appearances in this delightful work which I photographed hanging proudly in the FEH and FSV classrooms. Congratulations to all our Foundation students. You will soon be in Grade 1.

 Our Grade 3 students were inspired by the artwork of  French Artist Paul Cezanne and the NGA Kids Still Life Interactive which is fun to use. They cut out their own paper stencils and used oil pastels to print a range of objects on black paper for arrangement as a “Still Life”. We glossed the oil pastel to avoid smudging. Congratulations to the students whose work is featured here.

A retiring puppet manufacturer gave us some plastic eyes which were ideal for owls. Our Prep students watched the DVD entitled “Owl Babies” by Martin Wadell and then used paper cutting and fringing techniques to create their own owls. They look wonderful displayed in classrooms, quietly watching over our students. You might like to try some of the owl craft ideas on Pinterest.

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