As the evenings get longer and the first signs of spring appear, The Art Room has been blooming with creativity and colour. So, this week we celebrated the season by thinking about how flowers brighten our homes and our hearts. Our classes were filled with vibrant petals and imaginative patterns as our young artists created armfuls of bold paper flowers and a striking display of colourful cardboard vases.

Flaky or shortcrust, savoury or sweet, there’s something wonderfully comforting about tucking into a good pie, particularly when enjoyed with family and friends! So, when British Pie Week came around, we couldn’t resist celebrating it together in The Art Room in our own fun and creative way.

Whether traversing the slopes on holiday or catching some ‘big air’ on TV, many of us enjoyed the thrill of winter sports this half term. So, for our first session back in The Art Room, we wanted to capture a similar energy and dynamism in our artworks by creating winter-athlete drawings and sculptures inspired by this year’s Winter Olympics.

Roses are red, violets are blue

Children create with clay, paper and glue!

Miniature roses moulded from clay

Petal by petal for Valentine’s day

We experienced a special energy in The Art Room last week when the joy of discovery took hold and our young artists followed their instincts to create patterns and images without the fear of mistakes. Aiming for another carefree, creative adventure, this week we guided the children with musical activities devised to provoke a sense of wonder, encourage confidence and champion freedom of expression.  With a nod to National Storytelling Week, we had a ball exploring the theme ‘Soundtrack Your Story’ finding playful ways to let music spark the imagination.

It was International Lego Day on Wednesday 28 January 2026 – a global celebration of the iconic building brick that has inspired generations of children, and adults, to dream big and build bigger. Inspired by the idea of transforming simple bricks into extraordinary ideas, this week in The Art Room we had great fun making art with Lego!

The RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch takes place this weekend, an annual event that sees hundreds of thousands of nature lovers build a picture of how garden birds are faring in our own back yards. So, in The Art Room this week we took inspiration from our feathered friends and set about building our own bird-themed pictures by drawing, not from what we could spot through the window, but from the shapes of art history and the striking paper Cut-Outs of French artist Henri Matisse.

This week in The Art Room we continued our drawing discoveries by zooming in on detail.  Building on last week’s activities and our understanding of shape and form, our focus was on texture and how to represent different materials and surface detail in our drawings, by simply using a pencil.

We kept things simple in The Art Room this week and for our first session of 2026 we eased ourselves into an exciting new year of creativity by practising our drawing skills.  Going back to basics, we explored how mark-making in its simplest form can be arranged to form patterns and shapes. Providing us with a foundation for building an image, the combination of line and shape opens up endless creative possibilities for capturing the many things we see, experience and dream up in the world around us.

It started to feel a bit festive in The Art Room this week as our imaginations roamed free among sparkling skies, snowy vistas and the inky shadows of a winter wonderland.

Thursday 27^th November marked the beginning of National Tree Week. This annual event, now in its fiftieth year, raises awareness about the vital role trees play in our environment and provided acres of inspiration for the Woodland theme we’ve enjoyed exploring over the past couple of weeks in The Art Room.

It was Odd Sock Day on Monday 10 November, an event that takes place during Anti-Bullying week to promote individuality and kindness.  So, this week in The Art Room, we asked everyone to design their own pair of mismatched socks to reflect their unique personality, interests and imagination.

The Art Room was back with a bang this week with a dazzling display of firework art to welcome in the new half term!

We moved from sunny yellow to vibrant multicolour this week in The Art Room to highlight innovation and resourcefulness in support of Recycle week. 

Friday 11 October 2025 is World Mental Health Day. Taking inspiration from UK charity Young Minds, we asked everyone to say “Hello Yellow” in The Art Room this week to celebrate the joy and positivity that can be experienced through making art and in coming together to share in mindful creativity.

This week, in addition to painting the beautiful shapes and colours that we can see in the natural world around us, we explored how to capture the dynamic change and movement of autumn by creating super fun agamograph artworks that, like magic, change depending on how you look at them!     

This week in the Art Room we had the tunes, we had the bunting and we had the vibes as we hosted a fun-filled arty party to celebrate our first birthday and an exciting opening year of children’s art classes! 

With a nod to International Dot Day, which took place on 15 September, and in the spirit of Vashti, the young artist who features in the popular children’s book, The Dot, by Peter Reynolds, The Art Room was filled with creativity, courage and collaboration this week! Encouraged to just “make a mark and see where it takes you” the children were ‘popping’ with ideas and rose to the challenge of making their own ‘dotty’ art works using only circles, dots and rounds.

It was fantastic to welcome everyone back into the Art Room this week for a brand new term!  We have loads of new arty projects and activities planned for the coming weeks but, for our first session back, we wanted the children to have a moment to recall and to share the exciting adventures, big and small, that they have enjoyed over the summer break.  

Sprinkled with oodles of fun, the Art Room wound down for the summer break this week by sharing scoops of creativity and colourful sweet treats with our ice cream-themed activities, the cherry on top of what has been a fantastic first year of sessions!