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Art, Design and Technology
This page outlines the topics we've covered, as well as the resources and external courses that we've used.
Trips & Workshops
Peggy the wardrobe maker!
Peggy has researched, designed, built and painted a wardrobe for her teddy Tinsel! Peggy just loves working with wood and so we thought we’d get the professionals in to help her achieve what she’d sketched out many, many times over many months. Laura at Hepp DT guided Peggy through the entire process in four private ... Read more
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RHS Garden Bridgewater
On such a gorgeous sunny day, we ventured out to the new RHS Garden Bridgewater in Salford with Grandma. We went armed with our cameras so the girls would be kept entertained whilst us grown-ups appreciated the gardens. The girls took some amazing pictures, especially Peggy. We were there for a good couple of hours ... Read more
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Art, Design and Technology | Natural World | Trips | UK Day trips - near Manchester
Fake wounds with a professional
We get to meet so many different people in the home ed community and I’m getting much better now at asking them if they’ll share any skills they have with us. We met Reagan and her children through our local home ed Facebook group and then at our forest school. Reagan is an amazing makeup ... Read more
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Brownie crafts
Peggy has had several more online Brownie meetings. They had a visitor to teach them how to do fingerprint art and then the next week they hand-sewed Easter bunnies. Thank you Chestnut Owl for such a great term and for all you do for Brownies.
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Pointilism – Georges Seurat
We had a look at the Pointilism movement and the work of Georges Seurat. We used a fact file from Twinkl which started us off on this topic . We then had a go at doing our own Pointilism-inspired artwork using some guidance from Twinkl. It turns out Daddy is quite the Pointilist!
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Glow Up Wint Style
The girls have been watching Glow Up on TV, a competition for make-up artists (MUA) to win a contract with a high-profile photographer. The girls wanted to have a go too so they drew up some designs on paper and then had a go with some face paint. We bought these paints from Amazon and ... Read more
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The eyes have it
Time for a bit more art today. Last week we looked at drawing faces, making sure everything was in proportion relative to the shape of the face. Today we delved into some details by attempting to draw a detailed version of a human eye. We used a really great 10-minute tutorial on YouTube, narrated by ... Read more
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Call th’ ambulance!
We had a go at some fake wounds with a good degree of success! Aggie watched some YouTube videos on how best to do it and then Mummy and Daddy joined in too (Peggy doesn’t do any form of blood, pretend or real). We used tissue paper, Vaseline, red face paint, ketchup and cocoa powder. ... Read more
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Drawing Faces
The girls have requested to do more art this year, so we made a start today with drawing faces. Using a Twinkl worksheet (How To Draw A Face), we first drew an oval. We then drew a faint vertical line down the middle of the oval to give us a centre point. Next, we drew ... Read more
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