Making Birds! Sculpture Ideas for Primary Schools
By Paula Briggs
These striking birds are easy to make and combine your drawing and making skills. Make one as a pet, or make a whole flock as a piece of sculpture! You could even make them a house to live in or a tree to perch in!
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This is a great project for children as the actual technique is quite simple yet there’s lots of room for experimentation and individuality.
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Helen Nock
May 30, 2014 @ 11:16 am
Such a sweet project…great for adults too
Alex Holub
June 6, 2014 @ 1:02 pm
This is a lovely project. How long did it take?
Paula Briggs
June 6, 2014 @ 1:10 pm
We did it in an hour long session – though I had made the feet prior to the session… and i think ideally we could have done with an extra 15 or so minutes. I think that would have helped some of the children really build out with the paper to make 3-d forms..
The foam board was great to work with.
Mollie W
January 7, 2019 @ 2:37 pm
These are what some of my year 1 children produced in 2017. I am about to try the project again with year 2 this time as part of their topic on British nature. It was a really successful scheme of work last time – we carried the work over several week, beginning with observational drawings of birds. The children enjoyed the work, it covered a variety of skills and elements of art and they produced work they were proud of at the end.
I tried to make a tree out of small branches collected from the playground to display the birds on, but couldn’t get them to stand up!
Sheila, AccessArt
January 9, 2019 @ 5:13 pm
Thank you for sharing such lovely work with AccessArt. Good luck with this term and let is know how it goes!
Mollie W
January 7, 2019 @ 2:38 pm
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Louise L
May 9, 2021 @ 3:40 pm
I love these birds! What thickness of wire do you recommend buying? Thank you!
Paula
May 14, 2021 @ 11:55 am
We used paper clips… but you can also use 1mm bindng wire which is malleable but also strong xx