Term 3 round up

This term we have really upped our double-sided-tape-game. We have started to see how this can be an excellent tool for sticking unusually shaped items or materials with different textures together. It is a replacement for glue rather than the tape I always offer - glue is offered too, but has been used much less this term.

Other ways to join have been explored - split pins are always a favourite - we’ve looked at making holes and joining with string, using tabs of card for extra strength or hinging, plus the good old masking tape as a way to join and add colour or pattern to things that we can’t otherwise draw on.

Limited palettes are one of my favourite ways to help us focus on the form of our makes, plus i’ve cut up and altered the shape or size of what would otherwise have been ‘ordinary’ materials - boxes, bags and cups - so we can look at them in different ways. As one child said to me yesterday - “you like to mix it up, don’t you…?”

It’s really important to say that these photos are by no means favourites. I only run to 3 sessions a week myself, and two schools don’t allow cameras at all, plus I don’t want to give the children the idea that one person’s make is ‘better’ or ‘nicer’ than another, therefore I take relatively few photos, or I do a sweep of everyone and end up with no shots at all in focus!