Thursday 11th October

Today at Artclub we started to make our sculptures of butterflies and dragonflies.  When they are finished they will be on display in one of the community rooms at the Children's Centre in Lofthouse.

We worked in pairs and we chose whether we wanted to make a butterfly or a dragonfly.

We used plastic bags and stuffed them with newspaper to create the shapes we needed and then we wrapped masking tape or sticky tape around the shape to reinforce them.

The butterfly heads were made in the same way and attached to the body, then too, were the wings.

The dragonflies had long skinny bodies and their wings needed to be ultra thin.  We strengthened card and drew the wings.  These we then attached to the bodies.

Can I say how enthusiastic everybody was making these and Mrs Mistry and myself are amazed at the sculptures that have been made.  Next week we will be paper macheing so please remember to bring an art shirt to protect your uniform.