Hello Willow!
Here are a few ideas for over the Easter period. Choose
as many as you fancy!
Ideas for
building for fun!
Can you make a bridge
out of different materials? You could
use scrap materials alongside anything else you might have. Think about our River Thames theme, you could
find out about the many different bridges that cross that same river and model
yours to look similar. Have a go at a
design, to practise your drawing skills.
Remember to test its strength, as bridges are built to
cross!
You could
create a tall building out of
different materials, including scrap!
Following our ‘Why is Bradford a cool place to
live?’ topic, are there any buildings we
learned about that might give you some inspiration?
Or can you create a building of something that means
something to you, personally? Any
building! A temple or a house? A
castle? A skyscraper? The Tower of London?
You might even create an edible building!
Take pictures!
Here are some more ideas you might try over the break, or any time!
Make up a dance to one of your favourite songs. Perform your dance using an imaginative range of movement patterns. You could record it!
Try some Mindfulness Art Activities. Here are some very simple, yet very effective ideas:
Draw your chosen subject in a continuous line without taking your pencil off the paper.
Draw your chosen subject in 5 lines.
Look at your subject and draw it without looking at the paper. No cheating!
Draw your subject in dots and specks.
Here’s something I tried a long time ago. Let's call it Through a Window. It
requires being quite still, but that’s okay. See if you can have a go: Look
through a small frame, this could be an empty kitchen roll, or you could cut
out any frame shape, but it needn’t be very big, maybe no more than 5 or 6cm
across. What do you see through this small frame? This could be anywhere - your garden, part of your room, any room. The tricky bit is to draw only what you can see through your frame, so some objects will only be partially in view. You'll need to remember exactly what you've been looking at. Don't forget to include your frame as part of your picture!
You can make rubbings of tree trunks, bark, logs or even stone walls.
All you need is a piece of paper and a crayon. Place the paper on the trunk of a tree and use the crayon to rub over the bark.
You will see that the impression of the tree appears. You can use different coloured paper and crayons to create beautiful patterns.
Try and spot as many different birds as you can, or try drawing a picture of your favourite bird visiting your garden.
You could even have a look online or in a reference book to identify which birds you can see.
Have fun, stay safe and we'll catch up in a couple of weeks!
