Making Sculptural Birds
See This Resource Used In Schools… You May Also Like… Pathway: Making Birds Featured in the ‘Making Birds’ pathway Talking Points: Inspired by Birds
Sculpture in Primary School
What Is Sculpture?
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AccessArt’s Prompt Cards for Making
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Outdoor Art In Urban Gardens
“With many art lessons happening inside classrooms and often seated behind desks – it’s great to see an idea in practice that involves working outside and working collaboratively. This activity could be adapted to work within a school playground, perhaps with different year groups working together to form a shared artwork. The project could then […]
Transformation of Materials Inspired by El Anatsui
See This Resource Used in a Pathway… Transforming Materials into Sculpture This pathway shares how teachers might take inspiration from El Anatsui and encourage pupils to think how they might disassemble objects around them to transform them into sculptural pieces. Read More.
The Transformation Project
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Which Artists: Liz West
What We Like About This Resource…. “It’s really interesting to hear how the interest Liz has in the quality of light comes from a personal place and is something she has responded to since childhood. Seeing how her work has developed over the years is therefore a really positive re enforcement that individual creative journeys, […]
Making Musical Instruments
What We Like About This Resource…. “It’s great to see music being explored in this way, and combining it with making creates a really interesting immersive project. This activity would work well as part of an extended project looking at musical instruments around the world and some of the natural materials they are made from.” […]
Touch Wood
What We Like About This Resource…. “You can get a real sense of the environment in this post and how this could provide so much inspiration for creative projects. We are aware there the challenges to exploring the outdoors when many schools are in towns and cities. A way around this could be to have […]
Which Artists: Su Blackwell
What We Like About This Resource…. “It’s really interesting to hear how Su’s career path evolved organically, and how experimenting with different disciplines such as ceramics and sculpture whilst studying Textiles at the RCA began her journey towards paper craft and books. We really like how the small book sculptures inspired the larger scale set […]
Henry Moore’s Shelter Drawings
You May Also Like… Pathway: Exploring Form Through Drawing This is featured in the ‘Exploring Form Through Drawing’ pathway Watercolour Washes Inspired by the Tapestries of Henry Moore
Working with Dogwood
What We Like About This Resource…. “It’s lovely to see a resource that centres on a particular material and the scope it offers. I particularly like how the dogwood is used here to make wooden beads. This idea could be developed further by looking at how wood has been used to make jewelry throughout history […]
Dropped Cone Sculptures with Julia Rigby
What We Like About This Resource…. “There’s a really fun element to this activity which is you can imagine all children really enjoying! The idea of food on large scale is a great starter for a sculpture project and an early exploration of working in 3D. What’s really positive to see in this project is […]