Houses, Home and Architecture

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Explore our collection of resources exploring Houses, Home and Architecture for ages 5-11.

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Inspired by Anglo Saxon Architecture

A short drawing exercise used to help collect information and focus minds.

One Line Street Scene

A warm up drawing exercise that encourages thinking about architectural shapes and structures.

Simple Perspective

Introduce children to the basics of perspective in relation to drawing architecture.

Making a Treehouse

Engage children with ideas about architecture, shape and form, and transformation of materials.

Draw Your Home: Collage and Stich

Using collage and textiles to create a house picture

Inspired by the AccessArt Village, fabric rubbings and simple stitching are used to make a colourful collage of a home.

Make A Stitched Drawing Of A House

Using a range of stitches and sewing materials to make a sewn house in an hour.

Printed Houses

Use found materials as printing blocks to create colourful patterned papers before using them to construct 3-dimensional paper houses.

Monoprint and Painting: The Great Fire of London

An exciting exploration of drawing, print and paint to enrich a popular topic taught in schools.

Making An Ink And Wax Village

Using wax resist to create fabric houses

Introduce children to drawing techniques, wax resist and some fun creative processes.

Responding To Place

Artist Claire Louise Mather works with primary children to create an artistic response to the place in which they live, using drawing, collage and stitch.

Houses from Around The World

Celebrate International Day by learning about and drawing houses from all over the world.

Street Drawing

Exploring drawing using a vanishing point

Give pupils the opportunity to immerse themselves into a street view and explore drawing with a vanishing point.

Building Stories

Use photography, collage and iPads to encourage looking, collaborating, and telling visual stories.

A Workshop In Perspective

Try this wonderful and engaging technique for introducing children, teenagers and adults to perspective.

Collage Streets

Using collage to make pictures of houses

Use collage imaginatively in two ways to create individual pieces, that can be joined together to form a collaborative piece.

Be An Architect!

An introduction to architecture for children, and the opportunity to explore space, structure, interior and exterior.

Sculptures with Personality

Cardboard sculptures inspired by Anglo Saxon architecture

Invite children to make sculptures inspired by an Anglo Saxon Village.

Constructed Space

Integrating sculptural construction, photography and animation

Integrate sculptural construction, time, photography and animation.

Ink And Foamboard Architecture

Using ink and foamboard to create sculptures

Make drawings and collagraphs, and create architectural models based upon their exploration.

My House: A Cardboard Construction

Autobiographical architectural sculptures using corrugated cardboard.

Glow In The Dark Architectural Models

This project uses a mix of traditional and smart materials to construct architectural models.

Making A Scale Gallery

Create a shared architectural model.

A Model Studio

Offer exposure to skills that are useful in a real life creative working environment.

Building Nests

Building sculptural nests using card and found materials

A session centred around an exploration of the materials and construction methods we might use to build inventive, sculptural nests.

Make a model stitched house

A resource developed to celebrate the character and diversity of the many beautiful stitched houses.

Art for the square

Explore the relationship between art, architecture and public space in a series of workshops.

Making of a model village

Acclaimed artist duo Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope share how they achieved one of the most physical and ambitious contemporary art projects seen in Cambridge.

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