Week 7 - Working with Clay

Today was such a relaxing day - wet outside so it was nice to be indoors and working with clay - the children created some wonderful little clay decorations out of pieces of pine and heather stamped onto the clay - These are now waiting to dry - and later - if they wished could be painted - or just left as they are!!

We also finished the jars today by turning them into globes - filled with water and some secret ingredients to make the orbies float inside..

I am sad to say it was my final day with this class - but I've very much enjoyed the experience and hope to see them all again soon.. Keep up the creative work everyone - you are a talented class! Thanks to Emma, the school and support teachers for everything.

Orbies in a jar - waiting to dry before they can be turned upside down.

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Week 4 - Working with fabric, thread and sticks

This week the children were offered a choice of what they would prefer to make - an individual work or a group work - the children chose to create group work. Thinking about wintertime and natuve - we also spoke of the Cailleach - goddess of winter - inspired by this we began to work on a circle of life - nature - seasons changing. Everyone shared the work by cutting fabric - helping combine put the sticks we collected on the first week together - we all tied on a piece of fabric or the prints created. The work is looking like a Circle of life artwork - made with the botanical prints hanging from the branch structure. Deciding how to put the work together - planning. working on combining the sticks with thread and fabric strips. Everyone is adding some fabric to the Artwork Its coming together! The finished work Very proud bunch, Just need to find somewhere in the school to hang the work now! Very productive team work today!

Week 5 - Working with a Range of Fabrics

This week the children began to work on another large fabric piece - each of the children took a square of fabric and we all decided to create an artwork on each piece - the work will later be stitched together to form one large artwork - like a quilt or a robe to represent the winter season - the natural world - another productive day are we can see here with the amazing work by the children, This is the Artwork that we completed last week - now hanging in the classroom for the children to enjoy- it looks great. These are the completed artworks from today - amazing display of work. some even created faces a lovely tree here This is the Ice Queen These are the fabrics that we left in the jars to soak and dye - they turned out amazing..

Week 1 - Mandalas in Nature

We all met for the first time today to work on an Art Project as part of the South Dublin Education Center Blast Programme. Delighted to meet the third class children and their teacher. A perfect autumn morning for spending time in the outdoors creating mandalas - the children really took this task on board and worked extremely well in building their creations - we can see them all below - really amazing designs. Well done everyone - they are fantastic! We even came across a few different species of mushrooms

Bernadettes Artist Residency - Third Class (with artist Sinéad Curran)

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