After School Art Club: Drawing, Collage, Painting and Sculpture. (Part 1)
By Paula Briggs
I’ve been working with a group of Year 3 and 4 pupils at Bourn Primary Academy during an after school art club. The sessions are only an hour long, and that includes time to set the room up and clean up at the end, so I decided to do an activity which carried across the whole term, giving the children plenty of time to try new approaches and materials.
I wanted a subject matter which the children would warm to and which would work for both drawing and sculpture. I’d been watching the amazing BBC series The Polar Bear & Me, and was struck by the beautiful forms of the bears – forms which were simple, sculptural and yet recognisable as being “polar bear”. The bears seemed the ideal subject matter (and we even had snow outside!). Even better, the bears would provide us with an opportunity to make individual sculptures, which could then be brought together as a communal artwork.
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Samantha Barnes (Artypops)
March 21, 2013 @ 10:25 am
I love it! I’ve been thinking for ages that I need to contribute some of my ideas to this wonderful website too. I run after school art classes too and find them to be energetic, fun and really lively – great stuff to take back to my own work.
LOVE the polar bears, they are fantastic! Thanks for the ideas and keep them coming!
Many thanks
Samantha
Paula Briggs
March 21, 2013 @ 10:00 pm
Pls get in touch via info@accessart.org.uk with any resource outlines you’d like to propose!
best wishes
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After School Art Club: Drawing, Sculpture, Collage and Painting, Part 2 | AccessArt: Visual Arts Teaching, Learning & Practice
March 28, 2013 @ 12:03 pm
[…] on from the Year 3 and 4 Drawing and Making after school club at Bourn Primary Academy in which we made polar bears, we went on to construct icebergs for our bears. We then created an icy installation in the school […]
luc kitto
April 19, 2013 @ 12:01 pm
Loved the Polar bear project. Really inspiring. I’m very happy to have found this website.
Thanks
Lucy
Patty
May 7, 2013 @ 12:29 am
I love these polar bears. I just finished a papier mache unit with my second and third graders and it was a bit of a challenge! I love how the children drew their bears 1st!
Paula Briggs
May 14, 2013 @ 9:54 pm
I think modroc is often easier than paper mace – less drying time and easier to model!
A Law
April 9, 2015 @ 5:18 pm
I thought this was so brilliant. I had two classes, P1 – P3 and P4 – P7 over 8 1 hour sessions. The children sketched and made the MODROC polar bears. We didn’t quite have time to do the glaciers but they are going to finish them in their Golden Time. I did them a fact sheet about polar bears and learned some things myself too. Thanks very much it was inspirational!
Paula Briggs, AccessArt
April 14, 2015 @ 11:32 am
Great to hear from you and I’m glad it went so well!