Creative Flow

There was a buzz in The Art Room after the Easter break as we welcomed back our amazing bunch of young artists and lots of new faces too! Equally exciting, the start of our summer term fell within World Creativity and Innovation Week (WCIW) and, for our first session, we couldn’t resist joining in the international celebration by encouraging our little Art Room community to harness their creative potential with an art activity that required oodles of innovative thinking!

Starting with a simple paper cone everyone was encouraged to use their imagination to explore new ideas, be brave in making new decisions and use creative problem solving to transform a rolled-up piece of paper into something unique. Mindful of the sustainability focus of WCIW, The Art Room was stocked with a wide range of recycled materials - old cardboard folders, redundant magazines, tissue offcuts and all manner of paper scraps – to be repurposed into spectacular features together with our regular pens, paint, pencils and glue.

Our very youngest artists did a great job in reimagining the features of Charlie, The Art Room’s ‘superhero’ spring chicken, by creating fabulously joyful and colourful birds of their own. Our older artists accepted the challenge of dreaming up their own distinctive creature and whether it took inspiration from our world or a fantasy land was entirely up to them.  It was wonderful to see how, armed with a pair of scissors and a tube of glue, the children injected loads of character into their sculptures by fashioning wriggling cardboard tentacles, delicate tissue wings, striking patterned feathers and expressive beady eyes.

We were really proud to see how so many of the children, initially stumped by what to create, really threw themselves into the project and found ways of working independently to realise the structural or decorative features they could see in their mind’s eye. Well done everyone, we’re in for a fabulous term of creative fun and we can’t wait to see what you come up with next!