Sock Puppets

Making Sock Puppets with Year 2:

A great way to use your old and unmatched socks!

Materials:

Sock
Coloured art paper
Small polystyrene balls or stuffing for eyes
Posca pens
Thread
PVA glue

Artist's example:

Making a  mouth: cut an oval shape and stick it on as shown onto the top side of the sock.

Add the eyes by pushing two small polystyrene balls or stuffing inside, tie these off with thread

Now to decorate your sock puppet, draw the eyes on with Posca pens then add features with cut out coloured paper

Make your puppet as colourful and elaborate as you like!

Year 2 made some spectacular puppets many themed on dragons and other mystical creatures.

Mask Making and the Proportions of the Face

Making Masks with Years 4 to 7 and Exploring the Proportions of the Face.

The initial objective was to understand the proportions of the human face. and hence make masks where the eye and nose holes were correctly positioned.

Proportions of the face:

Materials:

Cardboard

Egg cartons

Polystyrene shapes

Feathers

Pipe cleaners

Posca pens

Glue

Art paper

Newspaper

The students designed and made masks for the Rain Forest Extravaganza. The characters created were innovative, colourful and inspiring.

After School relief Art Term 2

The Third After School Activity in Term 2 Involved the creation of relief artworks:

Materials:
Cardboard
Coloured paper
Polystyrene shapes
Posca pens
Glue
Pipe cleaners

This was a free expression workshop as an be seen by the variety of artwork produced.

'Sticky Outy' Art

Small 3D Relief Artworks with years 1 and 2... or 'Sticky Outy ' Art:

Objectives:
Creating 3D models
Learning about complementary colours
Cutting and tearing

Artist's example:

Lightweight cardboard cut out and folded as shown

Background decorated with collage

Further details were added with fringed paper 

Frog shapes were made for year 1 and bodies added with polystyrene shapes

Year 2 was a bit more adventurous and created their own animals:

Learning about perspective

Learning About Perspective by Constructing a Diorama:


Objectives:

• Learning how to portray distance by using contrasting shades from dark (foreground) to light (distant background)
• learning how to portray distance with detail and size of elements
• Creating a 3D diorama with large objects in the foreground
• Adding imaginary 3D animals to the foreground.

Materials:

• Recycled cardboard
• PVA glue
• Stick glue
• Coloured paper
• Paint
• Polystyrene shapes
• Pipe cleaners
• Posca pens

The background was created with several layers of cardboard representing hills.

The sky was created by blending blue from dark at the top to light at the bottom. Trees were added by gluing on triangles large at the front small at the back.
The hills were painted similarly light in the background darker to the foreground.

The next stage was to construct a foreground and attach the background.

1. The background is glued to a rectangular piece of cardboard as shown an overlap as shown approx 5cm wider than the background on either side.
2. Part 2 is folded up then part 3 is folded over to produce a stable stand. This is glued and held in place with masking tape until the glue is dry.
3. The foreground is then covered with collage using coloured paper. landscape elements are added... trees, ponds etc

The artworks were completed by adding animals made from polystyrene shapes and pipe cleaners.

The finished artworks were displayed at the Beverley Agricultural Show and will also be on show at The 2015 Perth Royal Show.