Years 5 & 6 Wire & Bead Ornament

Students made textured stoneware clay beads last term and then painted them. They used these along with floral wire, gold beads and bells to create original ornaments.

Year 5 Paper Strip Birds

Students used staplers and paper craft techniques to construct their colourful birds, now flying high in the art room!

Year 2 Design Challenge

Grade 2B worked in groups and designed a Play Center, a Museum, a City and a Village using a variety of building materials. Some designers became frustrated when structures fell, but remembering our "beautiful oops" art room philosophy, they soon recovered, redesigned and rebuilt.

Year 3 No-brush 3D Butterfly

Students used sponges only and texture tools to paint their butterfly. Next they cut out the butterfly and mounted it on their food dye wash background for a 3D effect.

Year 1: Fun with Origami

First we read Dogs' Night Out which is a fun book about dogs jumping out of their paintings in an art gallery. Students then folded orimgai dogs, cats, fans and foxes!

Prep & P/1C Origami Dog Stick Puppet

We first looked at a book called Spot a Dog which shows famous paintings that all contain dogs. Next students folded a dog head and decorated this with crayons. These were then glued onto a stick to create a puppet.

Year 5 Cup Construction Challenge

Years 3 & 4 Origami Construction

Students folded frogs, boxes, cats, dogs, fans, Samurai hats, boats and wallets!

Year 4 Harmonica Construction

Students used large craft sticks, rubber bands, toothpicks and paper to create their "harmonica".

Years 5 & 6 Matchstick Tower with a Colour Theme

Students chose a colour theme for their tower: either primary, secondary, warm, cool or complementary colours. These were built using coloured matchsticks and Supertac glue.

Year 4 Table Design Construction Challenge

Students worked in groups to design a table using newspaper and masking tape. The challenge was to build the strongest table. Morgan, Elka and Alice's table was the strongest and held 33 books PLUS a stool!

Year 2 String Runner Toy Construction

Students listened to a fun book called Splat the Cat. They chose a character from the book or made up their own and drew this on cardboard, coloured it in and cut it out. Next, they constructed a string runner toy using string, two plastic beads, a plastic drinking straw, a 5 cent coin as a weight, scissors and sticky tape.

Years 5 & 6: Multicultural Art - Mexican Sugar Skulls with Marigolds

Year 5 and 6 students loved this project - drawing and construction based on Mexican traditions!

Year 5 & 6 Construction Design Challenge

Students worked in groups with a time limit using 15 of each recycled item - large cardboard tubes, cardboard boxes and wooden slats - to create whatever structure they could imagine and plan together! Rafts and castles were among the created structures.

Years 1 & 2: Musical Inventions

In conjunction with their classroom theme this term, Musical Inventions, students constructed their own instrument, and thoroughly enjoyed the process. First we discussed types of instruments: percussion, string and wind. Students designed their instrument and gave it a unique name. We shared these at the end of the session and students also explained how to play their instrument. Some instruments were very versatile with percussion, string and wind capabilities. Brilliant! Year 2 students also wrote an Artist Statement about their instrument.

Years 3 & 4 Newspaper Construction Challenge

Students loved this challenge...working with a partner what is the tallest free-standing tower you can build using 6 sheets of newspaper, masking tape and string?