Thursday 27th September

Today we made models of butterflies and dragonflies from salt dough and worked on our symmetrical drawings continued from last week.

We are developing our knowledge of butterflies and dragonflies and practising our skills to make our big sculptures for one of the Community Rooms at the Children's Centre, Lofthouse.

 

We were thinking how a butterfly and dragonfly look in three dimensions.

 

We would have loved to have studied some real ones but instead we looked at images of real-life sculptures of butterflies and dragonflies made by artists.

Some of us chose to make butterflies and others, dragonflies.  We all appreciated that their bodies needed to be rounded, but the salt dough proved sticky and we just could not get the angle of the wings we were looking for, to imitate flight.

When we build our big sculptures we will paper mache the bodies and experiment with wire and card to create the wings.  How exciting!

The models are now drying out and next week we will paint and decorate them using the skills of creating symmetry we practised last week.

We will also have some big painting going on outside in Nursery's playground under the canopy.

Thursday 20th September

A huge welcome to KS1 Artclub! We have a new venue, which is Nursery.  So parents please collect straight from the Nursery doors...and a super new project.

We have been asked by the Children's Centre, based at Rodillian school, Lofthouse to turn one of their community rooms into a Butterfly and Dragonfly room.

As you can see there are some butterflies hanging from the ceiling which gave them the idea.  The artclub are going to make some large scale sculptures to hang from the ceiling.  These we will design, create and decorate over the next few weeks.

Today we coloured in line drawings of butterflies and dragonflies.  We were allowed to choose which we wanted to do.

We talked about what was important in nature's design of these insects.  They were "Beautifully coloured", "patterned", "had wings", "had the same patterns on both sides" and were "symmetrical".

This we then practised. We were careful to keep our colouring in the lines and shade in one direction.
This prompted us to have some background music playing whilst we coloured, so we started with One Direction's "What makes you beautiful"

Some of us completed the colouring and then designed our own butterfly / dragonfly.

 

Next week we are going to look at the shape of the butterflies and dragonflies and make some models out of salt dough.  This will encourage us to think three dimensionally.

Please can you all remember an artshirt or old T shirt.

The Finished Paintings!

May we present the three completed paintings for Beechwood Dental Care in Woodlesford made by our Reception Artclub.

The first painting is based on the children's story "Titus's Troublesome Tooth" by Linda Jennings and Gwyneth Williamson.  It is depicted as a comic strip where the children have told the story through pictures with their written descriptions of how Titus's farmyard friends are going to help him get his tooth out!

The second painting is inspired by Audrey Wood's book "Tooth Fairy".  It shows a cross section of the Tooth Fairy's castle.  At the top the Tooth Elves are seen building a bridge out of the teeth the Tooth Fairy has collected.  In the middle the Tooth Fairy is showing off the Hall of Perfect Teeth to her two guests, Jessica and Matthew.  At the bottom the Tooth Robots are hard at work cleaning the "not so perfect teeth" in the Tooth Dungeon, making them as good as new.

The third painting is a scene from "Bear's Loose Tooth" by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman.  Bear has his first wobbly tooth and his friends, Mole, Hare, Owl, Wren and others try desperately to pull it out.

It was great to see all the paintings side by side in the entrance to Beechwood Dental Care in Woodlesford.  We took our families and friends along to see what we had made and we had our photograph taken for the Rothwell Record.  The article should be in September's issue.

Mr. Reid, the dentist said that the paintings were helping his patients relax as they came into the building and they were a talking point.

Well done Reception Artclub from myself, Mrs. Chin and Mrs. Mistry.  It has been an absolute pleasure working on this project with you.

We have made something together that lots of people will enjoy looking at every day.

There are more photographs of our visit on http://robinhoodartinthecommunity.blogspot.com

Thursday 5th July

Today was our last session of Reception Artclub before our visit to Beechwood Dental Care in Woodlesford.

We had lots of finishing off to do.

Thankyou to Miss Pyatt and Miss McSorely who helped as well.

There were animals to complete, a Tooth Fairy to dress and teeth to place on their pedestals...

After Artclub today, the paintings will have borders sewn around them and fixings applied so they can be hung at Beechwood Dental Care in Woodlesford.

We are so excited to see all the paintings exhibited together, side-by-side, when we visit Beechwood Dental Care in two weeks!

Thursday 28th June

Today at Artclub we worked on our third painting for Beechwood Dental Care in Woodlesford.

We stuck down the bear's fur, the leaves on the trees and the lovely, lush leaves that are the bushes.

Some of us chose to paint some of the characters in the book to go on our painting.

Next week we will be adding detail to these characters along with finishing off the "Tooth Fairy" painting.

Today we had to add the captions to the pictures on the Titus painting. There has been some beautiful writing and text effects which will be added to the pictures to tell the story.

The paintings are really coming together now.  I am currently sewing a bright green border to the Titus painting to compliment it and finish it off, whilst Mrs. Mistry is laminating the text for Titus and planning the remaining characters to include.

It's busy, busy, busy, but incredibly exciting!

We look forward to the last Artclub session, next week.

Thursday 21st June

We were based in the light, bright and airy Year 3/4 corridor tonight and we had a look at the three paintings we have been working on, commissioned by Beechwood Dental Care, Woodlesford side by side.

The Titus painting is nearly finished.  Next week we will be writing the captions and then the border and fixings can be sewn on.

The Tooth Fairy background has had all the smaller paintings placed on it and it's looking good!
Today we glued teeth on the bridge (because in the book the tooth elves are busy building the castle from all the lost teeth.)  We each painted a big tooth to place on each of the twelve pedestals that sit in the Hall of Perfect Teeth. (One to represent each of our twelve members of Reception Artclub.)

Most of our energy was directed at the final painting based on the book "Bear's Loose Tooth" by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman.  We took it in turns to paint the tree, bushes and sky.

Next week we will be gluing fabrics and tissue to the characters and finishing off the other two paintings.  Exciting stuff!

Thursday 14th June

Today we started a new book called "Bear's Loose Tooth" by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman.

Miss Vollands read us the delightful story all about Bear whose tooth becomes loose when eating his lunch one day.  His friends, Hare, Mouse, Wren, Owl and Badger all try to help Bear pull his tooth out....

We then drew our favourite part of the story and there were some fabulous bears drawn!

Some of us drew some delightful scenes complete with "tunnels" (caves)

and the other characters.

Miss Vollands continued to cut out all the impressive paintings we did before half term for the "Tooth Fairy" painting which we are currently piecing together.

Thankyou to Miss Vollands for all her help with this project.

Next week we will be painting our big picture inspired by this story, which is specifically designed for Beechwood Dental Care in Woodlesford. 

Looking forward to it... 

Remember your painting shirts...