I only just found out that Ladybirds are Beetles!!!! I never realised! Beetles come in the most amazing colours and to make your own is pretty simple and quite a relaxing art to do. First up find a scrappy piece of paper or thin card and fold in half. You are going to cut outContinue reading “Coleoptera ( beetles!)”
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Collage Patterned Bird
I love collage as it is such a quick and easy way to add colour, so decided to make these quirky birds. You will need – glue, coloured paper, pencils, pastels, googly eyes and anything else you want to add to your creation. Choose two coloured sheets.Contrasting colours is always good but totally up toContinue reading “Collage Patterned Bird”
Book Recommendation
Non -Fiction this week with these two gorgeous books by Dr. Dominic Walliman and illustrated by Ben Newman.The books are beautifully designed. Atomic Adventure has the character Astro Cat taking you on an adventure through the world of physics. Subjects like gravity, atoms, molecules, sound waves etc to fill interested minds. Frontiers of Space coversContinue reading “Book Recommendation”
Food Packaging Art
Making a piece of art with food packaging that you can find around the house . You will need food packaging and if you also have wrapping paper, sweet foils etc scissors and glue An image , I have used a photocopy of a photo, an image from a magazine, a drawing. It doesn’t haveContinue reading “Food Packaging Art”
A witch/ Warlock wand
Even though we covered how to make a wand I didn’t really do a step by step, so I made one yesterday. So here is my step by step guide. I used a 12″ long Wilton bamboo dowel rod ( from cake section in Hobbycraft) So first we need to sand the end of theContinue reading “A witch/ Warlock wand”
Magic Wands
I think at the moment we could all do with a magic wand !!! If you are a Harry Potter fan, into witchcraft or a fairy wishing to sprinkle fairy dust, wands are great fun to make. You will need- A dowel or a chopstick or bamboo dowel rods ( from the cake making deptContinue reading “Magic Wands”
Painting with Scissors
So today we are looking at a very influential artist Henri Matisse.In his late 60’s he became very ill which made painting very difficult so he began to cut into painted paper with scissors to make ideas for work. After a while he chose the cut outs over painting, starting a new medium of “paintingContinue reading “Painting with Scissors”
Pop Up Picture
This is the most basic pop up technique. Instead of making it a picture if you were going to do it for a card just be aware the size of your pictures when the card is folded. This is just a picture pop up so I have not had to worry about that.First of allContinue reading “Pop Up Picture”
Book Recommendation
Two days ago on the 20th May it was World Bee Day. This book by Piotr Socha is full of facts about…..yes you guessed it…..Bees! It is gorgeously illustrated and packed full of interesting information , did you know bees were around when the dinosaurs walked the earth?That Napoleon Bonaparte made them a symbol ofContinue reading “Book Recommendation”
Scratch Art
These days you can buy sheets of scratch art but when I was little we would make our own. I used to love doing these and I think they are quite calming to do. You will need crayons, paper and a tooth pick or something similar to scratch away. If you have some black acrylicContinue reading “Scratch Art”
