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Week 2 > Paper making, natural dyes, watercolour, printmaking & book/zine making
Join Guendalina Rota in a journey through treasure hunting and discoveries! This week kids can explore different ways to create patterns and textures, enhancing the awareness of the surrounding reality, with sensorial and tactile activities outdoor and indoor. We will learn about colours and mark making using natural resources and recycled materials, through paper making, eco-dyeing, frottage, printmaking and much more. All the experiments and findings will be kept together in the form of a booklet, to take home and revisit, or even to be expanded!
Guendalina is based in the North east of Scotland but she is originally from Italy. Her practice seeks to explore the relationship that exists between the human being and the natural world, challenging modern values and priorities. Guendalina responds to these narratives using a range of mediums: sculptures, performances, sounds, words, videos and still images.
Monday 17 October
Paper making
We will learn how to make paper by recycling old newspapers, flyers and posters. We will make the pulp and we will use the frame to create our sheets that can be simple or enriched with grass, flowers and leaves. We will start drawing or writing, and the remaining sheets can be taken home or kept for further activities for those who will return.
Tuesday 18 October
Exploring watercolour and natural dyes
Did you know that coffee, onions, beets, just to name a few, can be used as a watercolour or as a natural dye? Today we will discover what colour we can have with red onion peels or coffee, we will try to obtain different patterns, folding the fabric in various ways before dyeing it. We will use salt to experiment with colours and achieve different results .... let's play!
Wednesday 19 October
Discovering textures: frottage and mark making
Today we are going to play a game: how many different surfaces can you find? With pastels and charcoals we will discover hidden textures, be it bark, wood, grass, wall ... the possibilities are endless! We will also go in search of natural treasures to learn what kind of mark a pine cone, a leaf, a stick leaves on the paper. The more kids will try, the more they can discover.
Thursday 20 October
Introduction to easy printmaking
From monoprinting to relief printing, we will try different methods to get closer to printing. We will draw on polystyrene plates; we will create layers of colours by adding and removing shapes between the inking process; we will draw directly on the ink, and find out what a ghost print is. Once they learn the process, kids are free to choose their favourite!
Friday 21 October
Fun zine/booklet creation
Today we will learn fun and creative ways to keep together drawing and sketches, producing an artist book or a zine. We will offer a selection of the most successful mark making techniques, discovered during the week, and kids will decorate some paper before learning how to fold, stitch or glue the pages.
This October, we have visiting artists coming in to teach the children. They will deliver a range of activities through the week under their chosen theme and be supported by 2 children's playworkers.
Week 1: 10-14 Oct - Drawing, Sculpture, Printing & Poetry
Week 2: 17-21 Oct - Paper making, natural dyes, watercolour, printmaking & book/zine making
As usual, children will need to bring their own packed lunch and sunscreen (and sunhat/raincoat if needed).
We hope to get outside into our beautiful grounds to explore as often as possible.
The club is for children aged 5-12 years and will run from 9am – 3.30pm
(drop off from 9am-9.30am, pick up 3.30pm sharp)
The club costs £28 per day. This includes materials, refreshments and snack.
Please select the days that you wish to book, and for how many, then proceed to fill in their details
Please note that we are not a childcare provider, and we do not have additional support beyond our Artists and Creative Playworkers.
The club is made up of a series of creative art activity workshops. If your child does not enjoy art, or a busy environment, please look to book them into a more suitable workshop. We want all of our children to get the most from their art club workshops, in a safe and happy environment.
FREE PLACES -
We have 4 free places available each day for families with low income in receipt of Universal Credit. If this would benefit your family, please add this to your basket and proceed to fill in the child's details.
These few places are much needed, so please be considerate when booking so that these can be shared amongst other children too.
*We reserve the right to enquire which benefit you are in receipt of.
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