Christmas festivities came to St Peter’s as we welcomed family and friends to our Christmas art workshops, in Year 3, Year 1 and Reception .  The objective was simple…have fun and enjoy creating art, while making memories with your child.  Everyone from grandparents to parents, aunties and uncles, cousins and friends engaged in a variey of arts and crafts, all with a Christmas theme.  Over one hundred ‘grown-ups’ attended  these  very popular events and we hope to do more art workshops in the New Year.

Great teamwork!

Nanny and grandad lend a helping hand.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Taking time to choose the right colour for the Cracker Christmas card.

Everyone is concentrating, while having lots of fun!

Wow! These lights look fab!

A super Christmas spider…and why not!

Drawing around each others hands to add to the Christmas wreath…what a great idea!

What a very long paper chain!

Everyone is proud of their creations…and rightly so!

Hampshire Design Studio came to our school and delivered their ‘Creative Masterclass’ to twelve children.  They skilfully guided the children through a variety of engaging activities, including badge making, mug transfers and designing their own bespoke T-shirt.  All the children grew in confidence and gained new skills, which they will carry on using back in class…and may even teach their peers! As you can see, the end results are spectacular.  You can view the artwork yourself in the school entrance.  Thank you so much to Hampshire Design Studio – it’s a day we will never forget!

The children had great fun creating these snowpeople during their kinetic art lesson.  Each one has at least two expressions and with moving pipe cleaner arms they are able to really express themselves!  Have a look at a variety of the snowpeople below and judge for yourself how expressive the children have made them.

Reception children learnt all about Remembrance day and especially why the poppy is a symbol of hope for a peaceful future. We watched the beautiful animation from CBeebies which showed that even after the destruction of the land, during the war, God’s creation came back to life again.

Reception children created these zebra pictures using different shapes, such as rectangles and circles.  They PRINTED the stripes on their zebras with small pieces of cardboard and black paint.

The children practised their colour mixing skills, while making these amazing African Drums.  Next they used wool to weave a design on them.  What a fantastic job they all did!

Year 6 learnt about Lions and how much of their habitat is being destroyed.  They also discovered that it is a myth that they are ‘The King of the jungle’ as they do not even live in jungles.

They then created these stunning  portraits of lions, using watercolours.  Each one was a masterpiece!

These characterful Zebras make your eyes go funny if you look at them for too long.  They are inspired by Vasarely’s 1937 zebra painting.  The painting sold in 2010 for £485,000!

Vasarely(9 April 1906–15 March 1997) is considered to be the ‘grandfather’ of the Op Art movement and the children have certainly embraced the Op Art vibe. Great job, Year 6!

These energetic cheetahs are bounding through their African habitat, hoping to pounce on their prey.

First we painted the background, usinng watercolours. After drawing the cheetah we PRINTED their spots.  First we tried bubble wrap, but that wasn’t very successful as the spots were too blotchy…but we didn’t give up!  We redrew our cheetahs and this time we used LEGO to print their spots – this was ideal.  Their end results are stunning and I particularly like the shadowing that they created with chalk pastels.  This was a really enjoyable mixed media project.

The lesser Flamingo from Kenya can grow to three feet in height and live up to 50 years old.  The children created these fabulous flamingos using oil pastels and watercolour paints.  I particularly love the way that they used their white oil pastels to create ripples around the flamingo’s legs. Each flamingo looks like it has his/her own character!