Mad Hatters Tea Party!

To mark the end of our Alice in Wonderland project we just had to have a Mad Hatters tea party - after all we already had the hats!!
We had a fantastic afternoon and were joined by volunteers who worked with us when the art group first started 8 years ago! It was lovely to all be together again.

We had scones and cakes, which had been made by the creative writing group the night before, it was a great way to round off the project and the terms work ready for summer scheme!

3D chapter pictures

Today we made these fantastic 3D scenes inside boxes!

Each box contains a picture to go with one of the chapters from the book Alice in Wonderland.

We talked about perspective and tried to make our pictures have a fore and background!

We used a frame and stuck things onto it so that they were in the front of the picture, it took lots of planning and discussion, we sketched our ideas out first.

We got there in the end and as always we're thrilled with the results of our efforts!

The Hatters just keep getting madder!

Leopard and lion hat! GRROWWL!!!!





Team work on Sun Moon and Stars



Top Cat!
Deep Sea World

Spring has sprung!

Transport-tastic!

Flower GardensFantastic Fish creation!

A bunch of Mad Hatters!

Today during art group we made hats using paper!

We did not use glue, tape or staples!

Our hats were made using Origami - the art of paper folding.

It wasn't easy, we started with smaller bits of paper before we moved on to head size pieces!

At the end of the group we all had a hat to decorate and wear!

Tea Party Table...

Today the art group talked about perspective, we used what we had learned to draw the lay out of the table at the Mad Hatter's tea party! When we finished one picture we found a place at the table and drew another cup, saucer and tea spoon!!

If at first you don't succeed...

TRY AGAIN!!!

Phew! It took some amount of team work, but together we patched up last weeks work!

We think that the moral of the story is;

"More paste, less speed!!"

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Sometimes it just doesn't go how you expect....

Hmm!

We've had some paper mache related problems - too much paper and not enough mache we think!!

We'll have to revisit our giant tea pot on Thursday, with a bit more paste this time!

Like we said sometimes it just doesn't go how you expect, but then you get the chance to learn how to deal with situations where you feel disappointed and have to do things again!

Puppets stage 1...

We started work on our Alice in Wonderland puppets during this weeks art group!

We are making the heads for our puppets using paper mache.
We ripped up newspaper dipped it in paste and layered it over balloons!

Next week we'll start to build up facial features!

This is a really good recycled project, the balloons were left over from a party, the bottles they're attached to used to hold the juice we drink at groups and the news paper is from our recycling bag!

Cupcake anyone?!

Once we'd finished our bottles that would have contained liquid to make Alice shrink, we needed to make the cakes that would grow!



We were super busy today!

We painted our cakes using the same technique as our bottles, the challenge this week was that we needed to mix the colours for different parts of our cakes!
We hope you'll agree that our hard work produced FANTASTIC results!!



How delicious does this cake look?!

All we need now is.....

... a giant tea pot...

... and a confused dormouse!!!!

Like we keep saying "Watch this space!!!"

"15 blue bottles, hanging on the wall...."

Here are some of the bottles we painted last week, complete with their "Drink Me" labels.
We think Alice would have a hard time deciding which one to drink!

A lot of bottle...

We painted during the art groups this week.

We worked on HUGE bottles for our Alice in Wonderland project.

We talked about colour mixing and about 'pointillism'. we tried to use this technique in our work and built up our pictures using dots.

We didn't find this easy, but we were really pleased with the results!

Alice a week later....

Here is the second in the series of Alice drawings, it is by the same artist as the previous 'Big Alice' picture, in this picture Alice is the right size to get through the door but discovers it is locked and that the key to open it is on the table!













I couldn't resist putting up another 'Big Alice' picture!
Especially when the colour is as riotous as it is in this work!

Another step down the rabbit hole...

Here's a fabulous piece of finished 'big Alice little Alice' work!

In this picture Alice is too big to fit through the door!


There's so much detail in the picture, what a fabulous portrait of March Hare hanging on the wall!

Big and little Alice...

Do you remember the bit in Alice in Wonderland when she eats the cake and grows then drinks from the bottle and shrinks?!

That's what we worked on this week BIG and little Alice's!

We drew a middle size Alice and used the photocopier to alter the scale...

...we talked about scale and about the difference between A2 and A5 paper (the bigger the number the smaller the paper is how we're going to remember it!)

Next session we'll be creating the background's for our Alice's to fit in!

Alice update...

Yesterday we talked about the beginning of Alice in wonderland, the part where she falls down the rabbit hole!

We drew Alice and the things that she saw as she fell down the hole...




In the pictures you can just about see that we attached Alice to a long black cable tie with a paper clip, so that she actually 'falls' through the picture!




The photo's really don't do our work justice!

More soon, keep watching!!

"Curiouser and curiouser!" says Ali...

At the moment our group project
is based on the Lewis Carroll book
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

We're right at the beginning of the project,

but we'll put up pictures

so you can see how we're getting on!