This Friday we will be once again visiting the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh for our inspiration.
One of my favourite sculptures in the Gallery of Modern Art is ‘Vulcan’. He is an enormous figure constructed from steel, measuring 730 cm in height. He was created by the Scottish artist, Eduardo Paolozzi
Click on the Sway to find out more about your Feel-Good Friday activity! I hope you have fun creating it.
Today, rather than posting a Sway, I’m going to share some art activities from the National Galleries of Scotland.
Each week, throughout the lockdown, they have been posting ideas for creative projects for children, including mud painting, spiral finding, map drawing, and bangle making.
Click on the link to find out more. Don’t forget to take photos of your artwork and tell your teacher how you got on!
Have fun!
For this Friday’s creative challenge I was inspired by Mrs Fraser’s assembly on different types of art, also by a comment that Hayden made on the blog.
Today we are going to be creating pictures using small stones and pebbles. The subject of your picture is entirely your choice – it could be your family, your cat or dog, birds, flowers – anything!
Click on the Sway to find out more …
Don’t forget to take photos of your artwork and send them to your teacher or to me, so that I can make a gallery on Sway to show your creations to everyone. Have fun, and have a great weekend.
Good Morning Boys and Girls!
I have been looking at all your artwork from last week and this week and it looks fantastic! After seen so many activities related to nature, it made me think of something super fun that you could try at home. It is going to be a big challenge because you will need to be very careful and detailed. Also, it is going to be such a fun challenge, I am already smiling thinking of all the great ideas you might have.
Let’s Begin!
Well done! All of them use their skin to protect themselves from predators, this is called Camouflage. The Mountain Hare changes its fur to white for winter season and brown for the other seasons.
BBC – Earth: How quickly can you spot these camouflaged animals?
Many animals try to hide or blend in with the background to protect themselves from predators, even big animals do it. Even though, some animals can not change the colour of their skin they use other strategies and high skills to hide. Click on the following video to learn more.
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Have fun!
Miss Maturana
Last week we tried to create a collage inspired by Henri Rousseau and the educator at the National Gallery.
Then later in the week we had a go at building a a 3D collage, a structure that stood up. This can be called sculpture.
Learn more about sculpture from the gang at Sesame Street!
I had a go at making some tiger sculptures.
I wonder what you might use to make a sculpture
Now that the trees are in leaf and many of the flowers in our gardens are beginning to bloom, I thought we could try making decorative eye masks using natural materials.
Wearing decorative masks can be traced back to history of Venice and its carnival celebrations. The tradition of mask-wearing started in the 13th century when Venetians held many celebrations and parties. They would wear elaborate masks to hide their identity, just like you may do at Hallowe’en.
Click on the Sway below to find a step-by-step guide for making your own mask. It’s very simple, and you need only a few resources. Remember to ask for an adult’s permission first!
Here is another quick tutorial: How to make a Leaf Mask
Don’t worry if you can’t find any leaves or flowers – you could cut out leaf and flower shapes from coloured tissue or paper, or even draw your own.
Here is a link to a simple mask template which you can download and print out: Mask Template
Once your mask is finished, why not make up a short play and then act it out while wearing your mask? I look forward to seeing all your creations!
Good Morning Boys, Girls and Families,
Today we will be learning to develop our scientific skills by thinking, asking questions, following steps, discussing and comparing. You will have to gather the materials and follow the instructions below. Before you answer the first set of questions I will ask you to read the material and steps first. If the day is beautiful you can try this outside.
Spring is here and I think we have all felt it (even our noses if you are allergic like me!), the sun hitting nice and warm, lovely flowers everywhere and birds making nests. During this season flowers start blooming and there is a really nice experiment in which we can make flowers bloom!
Let’s Begin!
Discussion Before the Experiment
After reading the materials and steps:
-What do you think it will happen?
-Is a flower a living thing? Why?
-What do living things need to survive?
Materials you will need:
-Sheets of paper
-Water (even a little bit will do)
-Colour pencils/markers
Steps to Follow
2. Cut the flowers on the edges, so it looks moreless like this.
3. Fold half the petals to the inside part of the flower.
4. Let the magic begin. Put them carefully in some water and wait to see what happens.
Discussion After the Experiment
-Was it the same as you thought it would happen?
-Do they take the same time if the flowers are different size?
-Why do you think this happens?
-How is water important to plants?
Read this after you have completed all the experiment.
Science Behind
When you mix a solid (paper, plants) with a liquid (water) a “Capillary Action” (flowing of the water) will take place. This means the water will mix with the paper, the paper will absorb the water, allowing it to flow from the bottom of the paper to the tip of the leaves you draw and because the paper gets heavier with water, it seems it is opening or blooming 🙂 In plants the water will move from the roots up to the leaves or flowers.
How interesting is that? Comment below to tell us everything about it!
Good morning everyone. Are you all looking forward to the Easter holidays? Hopefully the weather will stay good so that you can get into the garden for some outdoor learning.
I’ve changed the name of my Friday challenge, as I thought ‘Feel-Good Friday’ sounded better than ‘Crafty Friday’, so that’s what it will be called from now on.
Mrs Flockton’s ‘Design a Garden’ challenge made me think about an activity that I used to enjoy doing as a child, and I thought you might like to try it too.
Click on the Sway to find out more …
I hope you enjoy the activity. Remember to take a photo of your creation and either email it to me or stick it in your Learning Journal.
Have a lovely break and I’ll be back with more fun challenges for you to try after the holidays.
Happy Easter!
I love creative writing, especially when I have to think of a story with very little to go off of. It could be a picture, a video, a song that could be the inspiration for a story and from there you can build the world of your story to be anything.
I was really intrigued to give the Pobble HOT challenge a go, it was going to be my first HOT Challenge and I was really excited to try it. I felt much more confident after following Miss Deans Sway the other day on how to help build my story. She gave me tips and different things that I could consider to help make my piece of writing better.
On the website link there were lots of things to do relating to the picture so I decided to give them all a go and hopefully they would help me to create my story.
Here is a PDF link to my finished story, it can also be found at the end of my sway.
Pobble About to Hatch Story Starter
This is a great little project that can be completed over a longer period of time and it has all been created from one picture! How have you all got on with your Pobbles?
Rainbow Scavenger Hunt
Which rainbow colours are outdoors at this time of year?
Print off the sheet in the mild links and add double sided sticky tape
or
use an egg box to collect items in
or
make your own collection sheet to hunt for items to match the colours of the rainbow.
If you collect leaves and petals you could have a go at pounding them with a hammer or rubbing them onto a piece of thick paper to collect rainbow colours.
Take care, ask an adult for a safe tool to use.
“Yesterday morning when the sun was shining and it was dry I went outside and searched for rainbow colours and…”
Look through the sway below to find out more about what I did.
