Expressive Arts and Design

Early Learning Goal: Creating with Materials 

Children at the expected level of development will: 

- Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function;

- Share their creations, explaining the process they have used;  

25.4.24 The children used their sketching skills to sketch a sunflower. They did an amazing job!

19.4.24 Vincent Van Gogh - Today, we have learnt about Vincent Van Gogh and had a look at his famous paintings. The children chose their favourite and voted - we talked about which art was the most popular in our class. 

The children also practised sketching skills. 

12.3.24 Art - Paper caterpillars

This week we have read the Hungry Caterpillar.  We have made our own paper caterpillars from linking paper chains and folding paper to make a concertina.

5.3.24 Today we practised our folding skills by making origami cats. Our buddies helped us as some of the folding was tricky.

W/C 26.2.24 In continuous provision this week, the children have been painting animals. 

14.2.24 3D Landscape Art

The children enjoyed making scenes using natural objects. There were castles, houses, towers and more! Some children created their own art, some children worked together. 

1.2.24 DT Superhero Wands

The children used their assembling skills from last week to make their own Superhero wands today!

26.1.24 DT Assembling: The children have been learning how to join materials in different ways: including glue, tape, string, split pins and treasury tags. They also had a go at using the hole punches. 

24.1.24 The children are really enjoying the Superhero crafts this week!

ELG: Being Imaginative and Expressive 

Children at the expected level of development will: 

- Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs; 

- Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and try to move in time with music. 

19.1.24 Today, the children practised using the words 'tempo' and 'beat'. We tapped the beat on our knees. We also had a little dance!

11.1.24 Action Songs!

We sang some action songs today and the children learnt a Makaton version of "Row, Row, Row your boat". 

I wonder if you can guess the first song we sang from the first few pictures?

11.1.24 Clay

Using Morph as inspiration, the children have created brilliant models made of clay! First, we explored the texture of the clay and practised rolling, pinching and smoothing. Then we made ours models!

18.12.23 Transient Art

Transient Art means art that is not fixed or permanent.  The children have used natural loose parts today to create some lovely pictures.

6.12.23 

The children used salt dough to make Christmas decorations. They helped to make the mixture, roll out the dough and cut their chosen shape with a cookie cutter. 

23.11.23 & 24.11.23 The children have enjoyed creating their own "feelings jars" after learning about them in PSHE. 

21.11.23 Painting to Muic

What a lovely Art lesson we had today!  

The children listened to some different pieces of music with their eyes closed and thought about how it made them feel.  Did it make them feel happy? Calm? Want to move?  Then they moved and danced to that piece of music.

The children then listened to a final piece of music and instead of dancing with their body, they danced with their paintbrush, moving it along the paper. They moved their paintbrush in lots of different ways, for example, long smooth strokes, short sharp dots, flicking, swirling, zig zags etc.

14.11.23 Outdoor Art

The children made their own paint today using mud! They investigated using different amounts of water to mix into the mud and effect this had on the paint.  They then painted with the mud paint on a variety of media (paper, brown paper, slates) using a variety of 'natural' paintbrushes. These inclused brushes made from pine cones, grass, feathers and twigs. We had so much fun!

24.10.23 DT - Worry Monsters

We read a story today called 'Ruby's Worry.'  We talked about what a worry was and how it could help to talk about a worry.  The children have then used the boxes they bought in to make their own worry monster.

24.10.23 Music - Vocal Sounds

We went to the music room today for the first time!  We explored how we can make vocal sounds ourselves and played pass the sound around the circle.  

20.10.23

16.10.23 Self portraits with colour

We looked at some self portraits that had been painted by artists and noticed that some of them used realistic colours and some used unrealistic colours.  We the created our own self portraits and could choose the style in which we did them. 

10.10.23 Self portraits

What a lovely art lesson we had today!  The children could remember that observing something means to look closely at it.  We looked closely at our faces, pointing out our features using mirrors.  We then had a go at drawing our faces on a whiteboard.  

Then we had a picture of half our face and we had to complete the missing side.

3.10.23 Observational Drawings

In our Art lesson today we learnt that to observe something means to look very closely at it.  We looked carefully at a flower, spotting the different parts of it.  The children then used sketching pencils to draw their own picture of a flower. What fantastic artists we have!

2.10.23

The children have used natural materials to make a picture. They then used the I Pad to take a photo of their work themselves! Here is a selection of their pictures.

28.9.23 Myself!

In RE this week, we have been talking about ourselves and how special our names are. We made collage portraits!

27.9.23 Owl Babies

In class we have read the story of Owl Babies.  In the continuous provision, the children then used various craft materials to make their own owl puppet. Look at some of the fabulous creations!