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Stepping Stones
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The 12 Days of
Christmas - Stepping Stones Style
Our Christmas art project was The Twelve Days Of
Christmas (According to Stepping Stones). We all helped to re-write the words to
the carol with our own list of presents. We had everything from Twelve Jars of
Chutney to A Plate of Scrumptious Cheese Straws. We had to think of things that
had the same number of syllables as the original verses. We made models for each
verse using different things like card, paint and paper maché. We were all
involved in making the models and I helped to make the jars of chutney for the
last verse, with Chris. We recorded the song too. We used a microphone and sang
the song. We did different verses and some people were brave enough to do solos.
The staff sang too. The final song was mixed on the computers and we decided to
make it all into a DVD with us singing the song to the pictures.
Sang
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Felt Making
Our project for Summer was textiles. We looked at
different fibres used in fabrics from animals, plants and manmade. We looked
at the uses of textiles and we did a survey around the building. We found
lots of objects made from textiles and we looked at fibres through a
microscope, they look really good. Wool was different from the other fibres
as it was scaly – it’s the only fibre that will felt. All other fibres are
spun together to make threads which can either be knitted or woven to make
cloth. Felt is great you can cut it and it won’t fray and you can shape it
to make patterns and pictures. We decided to make felt squares with
pictures. Kate
Click here for FLICKR slideshow
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Christmas
Bowls
In November we decided to make bowls
to put sweets in for Christmas. Some of us brought in our own bowl from
home. We made them with paper maché and it took several turns to get them
right with different glues. We put about 5 layers on the bowls to get them
strong. We then had to think what we were going to put on our bowls for a
design. We have
all done our designs as either patterns
or pictures. The bowls were all varnished and we took
them home as Christmas gifts with sweets in to give to our families or
friends. All the bowls looked great. Kate |
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Wild Flower Project |
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This year we decided to do a wild flower
project. We learned about how plants breath and make food as well as looking
closely at all the different parts of flowers. Some of us went to the
library to get books on wild flowers. Sue put different colours in a box so
we could pick out which colour flower to do. I am doing a white wild
flower called Greater Stitchwort. I drew my stems and leaves on a big piece
of paper. We coloured our first pictures with pencil and now we are doing
some really large pictures. We have to look very carefully to get all the
details right. You can see our pictures in the
Click here for a FLICKR Slideshow |
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Rock Boxes
Using the ideas we saw in the Castle
Museum we printed paper in a rock effect. To get the effect we used all
sorts of things, like special paint brushes, tissue and sponges. Some looks
like Malachite and some like Lapis. One of the objects in the exhibition was
a beautiful cabinet decorated with inlaid precious stones to look like it
was landscapes on each panel. This is what we used as our idea for our Rock
Boxes.
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Art at the Rock Face
We went to Norwich Castle Museum to see an exhibition called Art at the
Rock Face. It was all about how Rocks are used in art and design. We saw
jewellery, ornate books, furniture, sculpture and paintings. This visit led
us on to talk about how rocks are made. We learned about igneous,
metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. We talked about how the earth was made
and also about other planets. We looked at how crystals are formed and did
an experiment with salt. We made pipe cleaner models and stood them in a
strong salt solution to see how the crystals would form.
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Digital Art
We’ve been putting our artistic skills to good use in
ICT, by learning to use some new software. We made patterns using Felt tip pens.
Using the Scanner that we bought with help from the BBC Radio Norfolk Listeners Helpline, we transferred our patterns to the computer. We changed the HUE (Colour)
and used warping effects to change the pattern. The pictures on the right
show one pattern before and after the application of the digital effects.
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Lantern Making
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We have
been working with some new people lately. We have been involved in making
lanterns for
the Waterway Arts Trail event taking place at the end of May. Sue and Charlotte (from the Making Marks project) came to show us how to
make them. They
will be floated down the river at night on the
26th May. We all had a great
time making the lanterns. We had to use environment friendly
materials, so they would not harm the fish and other things that live in the
river. The
lanterns will look lovely floating down the river.
You can see
all our lanterns in the
Click here for a Slideshow of our lanterns
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Beautiful British Butterflies
We decided to make
butterflies for the Spring display. We went to the library to find some
books and we found lots. There were so many books that we made page
references so that we could find the information easily when we needed it.
We all chose a different butterfly. I chose a Tortoiseshell. We traced the
shape out of the book and used the projector to enlarge them and drew round
them again. We drew in the shapes and patterns. We coloured them using
felt tips, pencils, paints and crayon. We did both sides of the butterflies.
Then we cut them out and stuck them together. We had to pay close attention
to the shape of the body and the wing shape and the colour and pattern.
Click here for FLICKR slideshow
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Our Veggie
Survey
We have been doing
a vegetable survey, because when we are cooking we keep forgetting which vegetables
people like and dislike.
So Sue took us to the library, to get some books on
different vegetables. We did a list of different vegetables and if we like a
vegetable we put a tick in the box, a cross if we don’t like it and a
question mark if not sure. Sue gave us some question sheets on how many
people liked the vegetables. Carrots were the most popular. Then we put the
vegetables into different categories - Roots and shoots, fruit, seeds
plants, stalks, leaves, and flowers.
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We had to choose three vegetables, I chose Broccoli,
Fennel and Swede and I drew them. I used paint and pastel crayons to colour
my vegetables. When we finish our vegetables, they will be varnished and mounted on paper ready to be displayed.
You can see the rest of our vegetable
drawings in the
FLICKR Slide Show |
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Self Portraits
One of the projects
we have being doing lately is self portraits. Here’s what I did...
First I drew myself
as I thought I looked from memory. It was very difficult. Afterwards I used a
mirror to draw myself and this looks more like me.
Then I drew Sue.
I did a
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pencil drawing and then I coloured it with oil pastels & did the
background purple. Finally I made the big portrait of myself using every thing I
had learned. This one was painted carefully. Then I had to make the frame.
We went to the castle to look around at picture frames and the different
designs. I drew different shapes and patterns. I chose a diamond shape and it is
a good design. I liked it because it was simple and plain but striking in its
effect. I cut each diamond out of card bent it in the middle and only glued the
middle fold, so the sides stick up. Sue sprayed it gold afterwards. We put the
portraits up in the window and foyer for everyone to see.
Sang
You can see the entire Portrait Collection in the
Flickr Slide show
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Animation
We looked at Animation recently as part of our I.T.
work. We had a go at making our own computer animations using our
names as the subject. You can see what we achieved below...... |
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