Visual Arts Planning: Cardboard and Paper

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Wembley Lion (Cardboard) by Faith Bebbington

Cardboard

Thinking 3 Dimensionally with cardboard

Constructing with cardboard

Staff explore making cardboard sculptures during a staff training day.

Inspired by miro

Art work inspired by Joan Miro

Collage, automatic drawing and sculpture inspired by the work of artist Joan Miro.

Cardboard engineering challenge

Engineering using cardboard

Challenge pupils to make something stand up.

My house: a cardboard construction

Constructing a house using cardboard

Transform an ordinary, everyday material into an extraordinary object.

Kinetic mobiles

Making kinetic mobiles

D&T teacher Laura Kohler introduces the concept of kinetic mobiles.

The 1kg challenge with andee collard

Making a cardboard structure to hold a 1kg weight

Artist and teacher Andee Collard sets a challenge to his D&T students.

Layers in the landscape with emma davies

interpreting landscape through cardboard contruction

Interpret the landscape through the construction of colourful, shallow relief, cardboard sculptures.

Cardboard and jewellery

Creating structures with cardboard and jewellery

Use cardboard and jewellery to explore a simple design and construction.

Paperback Figures

Using old paperback books to make figurative sculptures

Artist Andrea Butler makes use of second-hand books as creative material.

Making 'sketch' models

Introduce the concepts behind designing theatre sets.

Introduce the concepts behind designing theatre sets.

Make a simple bird mobile

Making a paper bird mobile

Make a whole flock of puffins.

Get Connected! Cardboard robots

Making a cardboard robot with movable joints

Rachel Thompson shows you how to make a robot using scrap cardboard and split pins to create movable joints.

Wet Strength Tissue Paper Cups

Making a paper puzzle purse

Construct and paint paper cups using cardboard and wet strength tissue paper.

Painted Pots and sculptural plants

Making a paper puzzle purse

Year 4 explore plants through several materials and on various scales from sketchbooks to paintings.

Alternative fashion

Making a cardboard robot with movable joints

Create a fashion school and design unique clothes.

Hew Locke Inspired Boats

Making a paper puzzle purse

This boat project develops children’s individual response to making, using recycled and found materials.

Egg Box Gargoyles

Making a paper puzzle purse

In this post, illustrator Laura McKendry shows how to make inventive gargoyles using discarded egg boxes.

Ice Worlds

Making a paper puzzle purse

A project that invites pupils to create an imaginative interpretation of what an ice world above and below the waterline might be like.

Paper

Giant Jewellery: Multimedia Response to Yayoi Kusama

Making paper sculptures

Clare Boreham Kerr shares a project inspired by the colours and patterns used by the artist Yayoi Kusama.

Adapting AccessArt: 2d to 3d

Making paper sculptures

Yu-Ching adapts an AccessArt resource to develop pupils' 'Design Through Making' skills.

3D drawing with paper

Making paper sculptures

Artist Andrea Butler leads teenage students on paper sculpture workshop.

Paper Puzzle Purse - part 1

Making a paper puzzle purse

In part 1 of this resource, Eilis demonstrates a method for creating an origami puzzle purse.

Paper puzzle purse - part 2

Making a paper puzzle purse

In part 2 of this resource personalise and decorate puzzle purses.

Turkish Map Fold

Making a paper puzzle purse

Create beautiful folded books using the turkish map fold technique.

An Introduction to Sculpture

Explore sculpture inspired by Wassily Kandinksy.

Explore sculpture inspired by Wassily Kandinksy.

Expressive Charcoal Collage: Coal Mines

Make expressive marks using charcoal, in order to create a collage of a coal mine scene.

Make expressive marks using charcoal, in order to create a collage of a coal mine scene.

Concertina landscape

Create your own concertina sketchbook and fill it with collages, paintings and drawings inspired by your local landscape.

Create your own concertina sketchbook and fill it with collages, paintings and drawings inspired by your local landscape.

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