1. Art Attack Saturday class, Term 4
November 2013:
Art Attack Saturday class, Term 4

2. We enjoyed the LLC exhibition:
The Art Attack group was very busy this term, in the exhibition spaces and back at the studio. We made a group poster with monsters\characters for each kid (left).
We enjoyed the LLC exhibition:
made masks from paper plates to make shadow puppets and read this lovely book for inspiration and imagination (below).

3. Top left: the room ready for a busy lesson, painting clay boats and creating shadow puppets (they could move their thumb when wearing the puppet, so it looked like it was talking). On the right you can see the kids in action enjoying their improvised one minute skits in pairs inside the LLC.

5. The colourful finished clay boats with a diorama background

6. This term we have new display cabinets in the workshop studio and the kids were very excited to have their boats on display

7. Next we embarked on a huge demanding project:
Building a 3D pop up paper zoo, with origami animals.
The first two lessons were dedicated to the laborious task of making the four cages and connecting them with paper hinges so they could stand up in a square or be folded down to a pocket book.

8. The third and fourth lessons were dedicated to adding details, and inserting the origami animals they made as homework (the kids were highly dedicated and each one made a pile of animals! Don’t know many teachers that have the kids so motivated to do homework and extra work at home...). The last part was adding people to their zoo, either visitors or keepers. The project took a lot longer than I planned, partly because the kids were highly enthusiastic and spent so much time adding details, making more origami animals, and generally having a great and playful time, so I just ran with that.

9. At last, the finished pocket zoo project in on display!
Each student made a very individual product.
The oldest girl in the group made the neatest zoo, but it was also the most dull with imagination and details (only one type of animal repeated, a couple of people).

10. The younger kids just exploded with ideas
The younger kids just exploded with ideas! They added food for their animals (left), created “eye flowers” from googly eyes (middle - it became very trendy in the classroom and was very funny), came up with silly signs and silly conversations, cross dressed the people (right)...
Invented new ways to display the animals (left: hanging an origami bat upside down), had people feed the animals despite the signs...

11. Put 3D bowls with shredded paper “food” (top middle), made up alien paper monsters (top right), and even invented their own origami (the manta ray in the middle was born out of an origami animal that didn’t come out well). The giraffe is obviously one of my favourites...

12. One person even made “fancy origami”, adding googly eyes and a pompom nose. So you can see why I kept the project going for close to four lessons – it was highly creative!
Top right:
the works of the other gallery workshops (Wednesday afternoon and Tuesday Special Needs)
Bellow: ready for a highly messy class, which you’ll read about in the next presentation!