Art

Contents
Colourful Displays – A Mexican Marketplace
Umbrellas by Renoir created by 10 year olds
Hallway Displays – Art Show Banners
Classroom Displays on the blogs
On safari – a jungle in the classroom

Colourful Displays – A Mexican Marketplace

Oct 31

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Mexican Marketplace welcome Just look at these stunning classroom displays based on a Mexican market from Classroom Displays group member Painted Paper . Aren’t they amazing?

The colours  of the children’s work are so vibrant they just jump off the walls at you.

The work has been sympathetically displayed and carefully mounted.

Whilst at first glace, there seem to be lots of clashing colours, the colour palette the children have worked with has been chosen with great care. They’ve actually worked with a quite limited range of clear unmixed, mostly hot colours which adds to the Mexican folk art theme. Where the children have used blue it is a warmish blue with a tinge of red.

The hot colours of the work have been mounted on either a neutral black or on a coolish blue.  Lettering has been kept to a minimum and done in a dark blue.

The colours of the mounts round individual pictures have been picked out from the colours of the work so they add to rather than distract from the impact of the designs.  Individual work hasn’t got name labels and looks less busy than it might otherwise. This is a thorny subject in some schools where school display policy dictates that all work must be labeled.

Positioning Colourful Classroom Displays

I think you’d have to position this set of displays very carefully, ideally in the corridors or perhaps a shared area like the hall. It might be a little too distracting to have to compete for attention with all this energy!

If your appetite has been whetted and you want to see more just have a look at the  slide show below. Watch carefully and you’ll see a wide variety of ideas that you can adapt.

If you can’t view the slideshow here’s the link to the flickr set – A Mexican Marketplace

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Larger Mexican Houses with marigolds

Adapting the display ideas

These displays are mostly art based but it would be easy to tie them in with written work about Mexico, poetry, stories  creative writing topics

If Mexico isn’t going to feature in your coming year why not adapt the display ideas for the year 6  Peru unit?

There’s lots of inspiration in these displays that could easily be used for other units too.  This house display might be adapted for a unit on habitations, or even street scenes.

How else might you use these ideas? Do leave a comment and let me know.

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Umbrellas by Renoir created by 10 year olds

May 25

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Umbrellas by Renoir created by 10 year olds, originally uploaded by carlylennox.

I really like this interpretation of Renior’s Umrellas by a class in N Ireland. Carly says it was created using view finders and then the separate interpretations were joined together. It was done as part of a whole school project for Take One Picture 2009. As was the next display:

Rainy Day Patterns

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Hallway Displays – Art Show Banners

Mar 21

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Art Show Banners, originally uploaded by paintedpaper.

I love these banners. They have been created as part of a school art show. Create is at this end and you can just seeImagine in the distance.
A whole school art show is a lovely idea but why not go a stage further and get together with other schools to really show off your pupils’ creativity?
Just have a look at this gorgeous work for inspiration:

This show was started I believe 5 years ago by a few art teachers. Now I think 15 teachers representing 17 schools. It is really marvelous! This is just one of the shows that our region displayed to celebrate Youth Art Month. (paintedpaper)

Wouldn’t this be a wonderful idea for your school?

Classroom Displays on the blogs

Feb 20

Posted by Linda in Art, KS1, early years | 1 Comment

Classroom Tree

Karens Violetbliss: Classroom Displays

Found this lovely classroom display in my travels round the blogs. Karen says:

Our veteran teacher, Melanie, but together this display which includes artwork from all of our programs from the 2 year olds fruit, the three year olds paper plate turtles and an art that I did with the kindergartens of the old tortoise using watercolor paint and a saran wrap wrinkle effect to create the cracks of the old tortoise.

I like this very much, especially the tortoises.I think it has worked really well. It’s lovely to see so many people starting blogs and including photos of their classroom displays.

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On safari – a jungle in the classroom

Jun 27

Posted by Linda in Art, KS1 | 4 Comments

On safari through the jungle – in the classroom, originally uploaded by LindaH.

Transformational classroom displays are particularly popular in early years and key stage 1 settings. This reading area has become a jungle, complete with an elephant,lion and tiger. Most of the animals have been made and painted by the children, with some adult assistance. The result is a high interest area with lots to talk about.

Making displays like this can be a huge stimulus for speaking and listening but once the display is up staff often need to make an effort to remember to keep referring to elements in the display. Adding labels and other text can re-vitalise a display. A favourite addition is laminated speech bubbles so that asking questions like “How does the elephant feel today?” can give the children even more opportunity for expression and contribute to a text rich environment.

Once children and staff get used to the display and it looses its “wow” factor it has to go. There’s a great temptation with displays like this to forget their purpose and treat them like pretty wallpaper.

Displays like this need to be treated with a little caution. Whilst it can be great fun to transform a whole classroom too much stimulation can be very challenging for some children. Keeping some areas visually quiet and uncluttered is also a consideration.

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