Creating With Wire

A while ago I collected some different images of artists work that I wanted to share with the children to expose them to new media and ways of expressing themselves.

Last week we talked about the wire sculptures by Johnas Borman and the children have been creating with wire ever since.

An Ant

A Dragon

A Flower

A Fly

A Dinosaur

A Dragon

In doing this the children have had to exercise a great deal of persistence as the wire did not always do what they wanted it to. Many children revisited their creations over a few days, experimenting with different ways to manipulate the wire and adding to their artworks. 

Autumn Leaves

Ok so it's no longer Autumn here but my kids have been really keen on drawing the leaves they have found in their visual diaries (paying particular attention to the veins of each leaf) so we decided to make an Autumn leaf mobile to showcase their work.

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The children drew their leaves with permanent marker then brushed their paper with water (to make it more absorbent). They then used eye droppers to drop dye in different Autumn colours (that they had helped to mix) onto their leaf. We collected up all the leaves we had found and pushed them onto thin wire to complete our mobile! This activity was great for talking about line and for developing the children's fine motor skills.