Year 3 Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake Homework
AccessArt is always looking for examples to make the case that creativity is integral to learning (like, let’s say reading) and art should not be seen as an add on subject but core, so you can imagine my delight when my eight year old daughter came home with a year 3 homework brief to ‘make or draw a Roald Dahl character inspired by Quentin Blake.’
So at home on the kitchen table, year three children at Milton Road Primary School set about bringing Roald Dahl characters to life. Many thanks to pupils and parents for sharing images of their efforts with AccessArt.
All quotes are from the official Roald Dahl website.
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Andrea Butler
May 8, 2016 @ 11:27 am
What a wonderful, cheerful little post! The children have captured great character and humour in their figures – lovely!
Morag Thomson Merriman
May 8, 2016 @ 10:25 pm
I loved this post! What an amazingly fun, creative way to engage with Roald Dahl’s beloved characters! The children clearly had a ball (beautiful imaginative work!), and their school is to be applauded for coming up with such a wonderful concept! My 8 year old would love homework like this :). The photos are wonderful too, especially the close-ups of the children’s hands at work – perfect for your new “We Have Hands” campaign!
Sheila, AccessArt
May 9, 2016 @ 10:07 am
Thank you Morag – so glad you liked it! Do let us know if you guys do the project at home… would be lovely to see what you come up with! Warm wishes, Sheila
Sabrina L
January 26, 2023 @ 11:45 am
I love these sculptures so much we are currently in the process of creating our Roald Dahl inspired characters focussing on exaggerated limbs or parts of the charater. We have used newspaper and tape to create our 3d forms but I wonder would poster paints be ok to use over the Modroc Clay when it has dried?
Rachel
February 10, 2023 @ 10:45 am
Hi Sabrina, lovely to hear you are using modroc! It will be fine to use poster paint. Acrylic paint has a higher pigment content so would be the ideal – but poster paint will be fine and is more affordable. Hope that helps – Rachel