Thursday 9th February

There was lots of finishing off to do this week...

Chick's legs and beaks to paint.

Hen pictures to finish.

Backgrounds to paint using colour washes.

Details to add to the already painted easter eggs.

A caterpillar to paint.

All these represent some part of our Easter montage which will be on display to all visitors to the Children's Centre in the run up to Easter.

I am hoping we will be able to have a sequel on display in school.

Can Mrs. Mistry and Mrs. Chin thank all of Key Stage 2 Artclub for their commitment and enthusiasm each week and we look forward to next half term when we will be making the scenery and props for the drama production "The Pirates of the Curry Bean".

Thursday 2nd February

Today we were painting our Easter eggs for the display at the Children's Centre. We have used some lovely pastel colours which we will be embellishing with papers and ribbons next week.

Decorating our 2d relief flowers was fun and they have dried exceptionally "curly" so they will really look like they are just coming out of bud!

We have cracked on with our hen pictures which we are creating from papers we decorated two weeks ago.

Lots to do!

Next week we will be tying up lots of the loose ends needed to finish the display and it will be fabulous to see some of the work we created in the early part of the half term once more.

See you on Thursday.

Thursday 26th January

Today we all worked on the same thing - paper mache!

We each paper mached a balloon which when dry, will be sliced in half to make two.

One half will be used to decorate two dimensional relief Easter

eggs and the other, two dimensional relief petals for our

spring flowers.

Both of these, we will carry on with next week.

Please come with an old shirt, as artclub can be messy.

Thursday 19th January

This week we continued to create more things to add to our Easter display for the Children's Centre, Lofthouse and large collaborative piece based on Springtime.

Blossom was added to the trees we painted last week.

We made a background for the chicks painted last week by sponging on paint and adding straw-like fibre and tissue that we shredded. A grass background was started for the chalk sheep we drew last week.

We made butterflies from tie-dye fabrics and patterned papers and embellished them with sequins.

Next week we will be using paper mache so please can you bring an old shirt to prevent you from getting messy.

Key Stage 2 Artclub

Welcome to Key Stage 2 Artclub.

This half term we are creating things related to Easter and Spring. This was prompted by a request to design a display board on an Easter theme for the Children's Centre, Lofthouse.

This week we have used chalks to draw sheep and sponge painted chicks.

Some of us painted the base of trees, which we will add blossom to next week.

Once we completed our paper work, some of us are working on fabric which will be stitched together to form a large piece of work based on Springtime.

We look forward to seeing you on Thursday.

Artclub visit to the Children's Centre

Thank you to everyone who came and supported the Artclub visit to the Children's Centre on Friday.

I have published some photos of the finished models on the Art in the Community blog for you to see.

Visit to the Children's Centre

On Friday 13th at 3.30pm all the children in Key Stage 1 Artclub who worked on the project "Under the Sea" (last term) are invited to the Children's Centre, at Rodillian School to view the artwork they made last term.

We would ask the children to come with their adult straight from school and go to the Children's Centre which is in the left part at the front of Rodillian School as you look at the building. I will be waiting by the door so you will see where to come.

We have invited the Rothwell Record to come and photograph the event. Please can you let Mrs. Mistry or myself, Mrs. Chin know if you are coming, then we will know to wait for you at the door.