thank you colleagues in The Craft Council, The Drawing Room and Southark Art Co-ordinators network, for this week’s lovely activities.
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Art activities for home and school – Colour, Squash and Stretch!
some great activities this week looking at colour, and from The Drawing Room – Squash and Stretch!
learn to sing John Kanakanaka!
Over the last 2 years, classes across our cluster have enjoyed singing John Kanakanaka as a warm up for Music sessions as part of our Confident Creators programme. Now anyone can have a go at home or at school!
Aga from Pegasus Opera Company teaches us a folk song from the South Sea Islands called John Kanaka. Join in with the singing, signing and the rhythms! This song was sung by seafaring workers to rhythmically accompany the work they are doing aboard ship. As a matter of fact, this one is known as a "halyard shanty" meaning that it was often sung by the sailors hoisting the biggest sails – very hard work indeed. "John Kanaka" originates in the South Sea Islands including Hawaii and Polynesia, between there and Australia and New Zealand. The word "kanaka" in some Polynesian tongues means "man" and is how aboriginal peoples of the islands refer to themselves.
This video was generously supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Art resources for this week
Week 4 of our art resources from our Southwark colleagues and week 5 of the Drawing Room artist challenges
EYFS Sesame Street meditations
Helping younger children with processing some BIG feelings going on at the moment, Sesame Street have teamed up with Headspace to teach breathing techniques and meditation.
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creating a kindness calendar
The British Red Cross invites people across the country to focus on acts of kindness and have made a printable resource that children of all ages can use to record a daily act of kindness.https://www.redcross.org.uk/get-involved/teaching-resources/kindness-calendar
Art activities for home and school
Some more lovely ideas for children to do with or without their families at home or at school. This week looking at animal drawing and designing transformers!
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recipe ideas on a budget
drawing and cooking – a lovely resource
Really enjoyed this morning’s weekly drawing activity from the team at The Drawing Room – drawing and cooking – a great combination!
Art resources for home and school learning
Thank you to Southwark Art Co-ordinators network for bringing us a weekly update of lovely art activities children can enjoy at home or in school during these testing times.
Resources
Access Art have a drawing challenge with a few drawing exercises and then the option to send in to their website to be exhibited.
https://www.accessart.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/TheDrawingChallenge2017.pdf
First Sight – Art Activity Packs
The second installment of the First Sight Activity packs is now available to download
Shirley Sides
This week’s installment of Shirley’s wonderful online art classes:
Lettering – https://youtu.be/jqD60xg4rbk
Weaving – https://youtu.be/4ArMrtGfrXo
Art and Mathematics – https://youtu.be/HRgK_ksVWTw
Southbank Centre
A great blog here with some fun and simple craft activities – from artists who they’ve have worked at the Southbank Centre before.
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/blog/six-ways-get-crafting-children-home
Online events
South London Gallery have a weekly Bad Drawing Club
Bad Drawing Club has moved online, on the SLG’s Instagram, @SouthLondonGallery on Thursdays at 3.30pm. For Bad Drawing Club, the Big Family Press use humour and unconventional methods of mark-making to doodle, copy, scribble and experiment with different approaches to drawing. Together, the group question what makes a drawing ‘bad’, and who gets to say something is ‘bad’ in the first place.
https://www.southlondongallery.org/projects/big-family-press-with-millie-nice/
Drawing Room
Sign up to receive the weekly ‘Rock Paper Scissors’ activity packs, and encourage families to email their work to projects to be included in their upcoming online exhibition.
https://drawingroom.org.uk/resources/family_activities
Competitions
Bainbridge Studios – Big little Artists
http://bainbridgeprint.com/big-little-artists
The theme is simple – Artwork that responds to the Coronavirus lockdown. Artworks can be from real life, maybe the view looking out of your window or something in your house. Or use your imagination to completely make something up, like a battle between the virus and the NHS. It’s up to you! Every fortnight one entry will be chosen and reproduced into a limited edition print. The winning artist will receive their own copy of the print, while the edition will be for sale with all proceeds going to the www.trusselltrust.org – A fantastic charity that supports a nationwide network of food banks. All artworks will be on the gallery page below and when life returns to normal, they will be arranging a public exhibition of the winning artworks along with the runners up.
The Brixton Learning Collaborative 