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Picasso
Go online and look at some Picasso portraits. Then look
through magazines and cut out different facial features – eyes,
noses, ears, chins etc. Then stick them onto paper to create your
own crazy face.
Steven Brown
Go online and find pictures by Steven Brown. Then use oil
pastels or paint to try and make your own rainbow animal
picture.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Go online and look at pictures by Arcimboldo. Then gather some fruits, vegetables and dried food
from the kitchen and try and make your own face out of food.
Take a photo of it when you finish.
Kandinsky
Go online and search ‘Kandinsky concentric circles’. Then cut out circles of coloured paper to make your own version of the famous
painting.
Andy Warhol
Go online and look at some art by Andy Warhol. Then get a parent to take a photo of your
face and then print off 6 copies of it in black and white. Then use colouring pencils to colour the picture of your face in bright
colours.
Piet Mondrian
Go online and find pictures by Piet Mondrian. Then use a pencil and ruler to make lines, squares
and rectangles on a piece of paper. Then colour them in using blue, yellow and red felt tip pens.
Van Gogh
Go online and look up ‘Starry Night by Van Gogh’. Then have a go at making your own version of this painting. Use a white crayon on paper to make the swirls, then a
yellow crayon to make the moon and stars. When you have finished paint over the whole page with blue water
colour paint and watch what happens
Roy Lichtenstein
Go online and search ‘Roy Lichtenstein boom, pop, pow’.
Then have a go at making your own explosion picture.
Sock Puppets
Get an old sock and then glue or sew on other details to make
your character. You could use googly eyes, bits of material, pipe
cleaners etc. Make a whole range of characters and then put on a puppet show.
Clay Tile
Get a lump of air drying clay. Roll it out flat and then cut it
into a square shape about 10cm by 10cm. Then use clay tools to draw a pattern into your tile. It
is a good idea to plan your design on paper first.
Cartoon Character
Design your own new cartoon character. Draw it in detail and
think of a name. Then try to come up with some stories based
around your new character.
Self-Portrait
Get a hand mirror and look carefully at your face – your eye
colour, any freckles you have, what shape your nose is etc. Then have a go at drawing
yourself.
Painting Rocks
Go into your garden and look for some big rocks. Then use paint to make then beautiful. You could paint patterns or pictures. When you finish you could paint over the whole thing with PVA glue
and when it dries it will be shiny.
Pointillism
Pointillism is pictures made up of lots of little dots. Go online and
have a look. Make your own pointillism picture using a cotton
bud dipped in paint.
Food Prints
Cut different fruits and vegetables in half and dip them
in paint and make prints on paper. You could even ask a
grown up to help you cut shapes and patterns into the food to make more interesting prints.
Hand and Foot Painting
Use hand and foot prints as part of your pictures. For example, use hand prints as butterfly
wings or foot prints for a rocket picture. What other ideas can
you think of?
Build a Fort
Get chairs and sheets and build a fort in your own front room.
Scratch Art
Paint rainbow stripes across a piece of paper covering every part
with colour. Then when the paint is dry colour over the entire thing with black crayon. Then you can scratch patterns and
pictures into the black and you will have a rainbow picture.
Marble Run
Use cardboard tubes to make your own marble run. Cut slits into the sides to attach tubes diagonally and cut tubes in half. How big can you make
it?
Money Box
Get an old Pringles tube – the smaller ones are best. Ask an
adult to help you cut a slit in the lid big enough to drop coins through. Then use paint or
cutting and sticking to decorate your money box however you
want.
Box Doll House
Use old cardboard boxes to create a house for your dolls. Once you have built it you could use pretty
paper to make wallpaper and even old bits of carpet for the
floor. You could even try using small boxes to make furniture.
A Boat that Floats
Design and make a boat that will float in water. You will need to
think about what will be the best material to use – it will have to be waterproof so it doesn’t get ruined and it will need to be
something that floats.
Moving Vehicle
Design and make a vehicle that moves. You will need to find a way to make your wheels move. You could use cardboard wheels with split pins in the middle or for a bigger challenge you could
try making an axle using a pencil or straw.
Kites
Have a go at cutting some paper into a diamond shape then add straws to the back in a cross
shape and some string and see if you can get it flying.
Superhero Cape
Ask your parents if they have an old piece of fabric you could have (Maybe an old bed sheet). Cut it out into the shape of a cape and then give yourself a superhero name and design yourself a superhero logo to put on the
back.
Board Game
Get a big piece of paper or card and either use a ruler to make boxes all around the edge or
make a curvy road trail going right around the page. Number
the boxes and then write in different tasks to do at each box. Also decide how you will win.
Melted Crayon Art
Use a cheese grater and grate wax crayons into small shavings – (a pencil
sharpener can also work if you don’t want to get your grater waxy). Then get a
sheet of baking paper and lay your wax shavings onto to it to create a picture.
When you are finished lay another piece of baking paper over the top and iron over it to melt the wax. Put it on the window
to make stained glass effect.
Photo Frame
Ask a grown up to help you cut a rectangular hole in the middle of
a piece of an A5 piece of cardboard. Decorate the border with paint, pens or cutting and sticking. make it as beautiful as you can and then stick a photo to
the back.