Prep & Year 1 Stamping Pictures

Students created pictures with shape stamps. In Prep/1C we read the book Miss Rumphius and students stamped a picture of a flower.

Prep & P/1C Claydough Echidna

We read a fun, rhyming book about Australian animals and then students modelled an echidna using claydough, which is a modelling clay halfway between real clay and playdough in consistency.

Year 2: Eric Carle-inspired Orange Elephant

First we read Eric Carle's The Artist who Painted a Blue Horse, based on a Franz Marc painting. This book discusses the concept of painting with unusual and unpredictable colours. Students painted a warm colour sheet, to later cut up for their elephant, and a cool colour background sheet. Students cut up the elephant pieces to create their own whimsical orange elephant!

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.

Prep & P/1C Colour Train

After listening to The Cat, the Mouse and the Runaway Train students painted their train engine using primary colour acrylic paint. They also painted a separate food dye wash background paper with white pastel resist lines. To finish their project students cut out their trains and glued these onto the background.

Prep & Prep/1 C Fine Motor Skills: Multi Media Shapes Picture

First we discussed primary and secondary colours and looked at a short Colour Wheel video. Students outlined their shapes with oil pastel and painted these with primary colour acrylic. The following week, a secondary colour wash was added to the background. Lastly students outlined their shapes again with oil pastel. We discussed how the shapes were not painted perfectly, and that this is okay and that sometimes happens in art. This provided an easy introduction to abstract art and we looked at the book I Spy Two Eyes and compared abstract art to "real life" art.

Prep & P/1C: Come Over to My House Collage

Prep A, B, and Prep/1C created colourful seaside houses by cutting, pasting and drawing after listening to Come Over to My House by Theo LeSieg. The story takes children around the world visiting houses in many different countries. We also discussed primary and secondary colours, and students used paper in these colours for their houses.

Prep & P/1C: Making Marks - Fine Motor Skills

In Week 2 Prep and P/1C grades had fun with oil pastels and experimented drawing a variety of marks using different parts of the pastel and a range of motions on the paper. They enjoyed naming the marks based on how each one looked, I.e. lightning, butterfly, snail, etc.