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Each day a visiting artist will lead art workshops with the children, supported by our creative playworkers. We cover a wide variety of art and crafts with a focus on learning and most of all FUN! With access to a full range of arts facilities and equipment, and use of our extensive grounds, lawns, gardens and woodland.
Details…
The club is for primary school 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 £33 per day, this includes the provision of a wide range of art materials, refreshments and snack.
Children will need to bring their own packed lunch and raincoat/sunscreen.
We hope to get outside into our beautiful grounds to explore as often as possible, so please pack raincoats as well as dressing in suitable clothing and footwear.
The club is for children with a love of art and crafts.
This is a busy and noisy environment with up to 32 children participating daily. Please note that we are not a registered childcare provider, and we do not have additional support beyond our Artists and Creative Playworkers.
We want all our children to get the most from their art club workshops, in a safe and happy environment. If you would like to discuss accessibility, please give us a call.
This ticket is for people who are on benefits such as Income based Council Tax or are unemployed or unable to work and worry about meeting their and their family's basic needs. There is a limited number of these tickets.
There are a maximum of 4 free places available to be shared amongst families low income families. Please select one session per week, per child.
These few places are much needed, please be considerate when booking so that other families can also benefit from the sessions.
Universal Credit - Please note, our Universal credit ticket no longer exists. As Universal Credit has recently restructured, our free ticket criteria has been updated to make sure that these are reaching the families who cannot afford them otherwise.
Week 2 - With Artist Sam Sherriff
Monday 14 - A Garden of Art
Today we will be making animals, people, and illustrations using foraged items from the garden, which we will explore and collect together for our art and sensory play. Creating patterns, mandalas, symmetrical works of art with leaves and other found foliage. We will be using a mixed media approach, printing with leaves, paint, pens, and taking paper rubbings.
Playing with the leaves we will delight our senses; Exploring cutting the leaves into new shapes, feeling the different textures and describing these on paper.
Tuesday 15 - Busy Bees
A day of construction and printing from the things we build. We will be getting busy with a focus on the importance and natural beauty of bees. We will be discussing pollination, hives patterns and looking at the contrasting colours before making our own bee hives and bees using upcycled materials and plants. Using card to create hive patterns, we will experiment with printing and collaging bee homes and the places they love to be.
Wednesday 16 - What Autumn Brings
Thinking about what lives in the grounds, we will start by creating beautiful but also practical frozen bird feeders for the Forgan Arts garden. Collecting conkers, we will use these to create a fun game for pattern printing using boxes, trays, paint, conkers and a variety of papers which we will go on to use for collage, drawing, and painting to mix with the original natural effects to create a finished artwork. Looking at what we have in the gardens to decorate Autumnal sensory boards for play, we will experiment with photographing the changing images we can create with the boards. Hunting for hedgehog signs, we will use some of the foraged finds from the garden to make our very own little hedgehogs.
Thursday 17 - Growing Trees
Today we will be using the beauty and simplicity of trees for sensory play, drawing, craft and collaborative construction!
After a walk around the garden to find the different trees, barks and leave that interest us, we will dive into some books to look at tree and leaf varieties for inspiration so that we can begin to build and make our own collaborative trees.
Examining our leaves and shapes from the garden, we will hang these to look at the shadows they create, using art materials to trace the shapes and patterns and collect some mark making samples and pencil and ink studies of leaves.
Friday 18 - Creatures in the Woods
What creatures will be hiding in our grounds? Looking at books on animal habitats as inspiration and reference, today we will be creating hedgehogs, spiders and other creatures using pinecones as the starting material. Focusing on woodland creatures for our crafts, we will play with mark making and tactile dough printing before creating our own little Snails and Fox heads with clay and a variety of recycled materials.
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