Easy to follow instructions for Craft Activities K-6
String Art
Paper
Paper Toys
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3D Paper Glasses
Make your own 3D glasses
Lots of Paper Plate Activities (pinterest board)
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Craft & Science
Create A Light-Up Robot - Tricia Fuglestad
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Foil Owls - Stephanie Allgood, WonderfulLife Blog
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Crafts on Pinterest
Syllabus Outcomes
ES1
Making
VAES1.1 Makes simple pictures and other kinds of artworks about things and experiences. VAES1.2 Experiments with a range of media in selected forms. Appreciating VAES1.3 Recognises some of the qualities of different artworks and begins to realise that artists make artworks. VAES1.4 Communicates their ideas about pictures and other kinds of artworks |
S1
Making
VAS1.1 Makes artworks in a particular way about experiences of real and imaginary things. VAS1.2 Uses the forms to make artworks according to varying requirements. Appreciating VAS1.3 Realises what artists do, who they are and what they make. VAS1.4 Begins to interpret the meaning of artworks, acknowledging the roles of artist and audience |
S2
Making
VAS2.1 Represents the qualities of experiences and things that are interesting or beautiful by choosing among aspects of subject matter. VAS2.2 Uses the forms to suggest the qualities of subject matter. Appreciating VAS2.3 Acknowledges that artists make artworks for different reasons and that various interpretations are possible. VAS2.4 Identifies connections between subject matter in artworks and what they refer to, and appreciates the use of particular techniques. |
S3
Making
VAS3.1 Investigates subject matter in an attempt to represent likenesses of things in the world. VAS3.2 Makes artworks for different audiences, assembling materials in a variety of ways. Appreciating VAS3.3 Acknowledges that audiences respond in different ways to artworks and that there are different opinions about the value of artworks. VAS3.4 Communicates about the ways in which subject matter is represented in artworks. |
Content
Students in Early Stage 1 will
learn to: • think about themselves as artists in their artmaking (within a limited understanding of the artist’s function) • explore different kinds of things and experiences in their making of artworks • make drawings, paintings, sculptures etc about things of interest to them and their experiences • use a variety of media, techniques and tools to create different effects • look at details within their own and others’ artworks and talk about associations with their own experience and the effects of the works learn about: • who artists are, what they do, what they make • how their interest in things and experience affects what they and others represent in pictures and other kinds of artworks • the properties of drawings, paintings, sculptures etc, what they are about and what they are made from • the properties of some media, tools and techniques and how they can be used to create interesting effects • who looks at art and talks about art |
Students in Stage 1 will
learn to: l• think about how they can work in similar ways to artists in their making of artworks • explore different kinds of subject matter and concepts in their making of artworks • make different kinds of artworks including paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, digital artworks and videos • extend their skills in using a variety of media, techniques and tools to create effects that link to things in the world • take into account various factors when talking about art (eg details within an artwork, what the work is about and what the artist has done) learn about: • how artists make artworks for different reasons • how different aspects of the world are represented in pictures and other kinds of artworks • the diversity of kinds of things that are made as art (eg paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, digital works, videos) • the properties of a wider range of media, tools and techniques and how artists, including themselves, can use these to create various effects • who audiences are, what they do and where they look at art |
Students in Stage 2 will
learn to: • develop their artistic intentions in artmaking and consider how these affect the look of the work, its details and an audience’s response • select and explore different aspects of subject matter in particular ways in their making of artworks • use particular artistic traditions guided by the teacher’s instruction in artmaking and experiment with techniques, tools and graphic schema (eg in drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and digital works) • interpret the meaning of artworks by taking into account relationships between the artwork, the world and the artist learn about: • how artists, including themselves, have intentions that affect the look of the work and its details • how artists think about what an audience may think about their work when they make art • how artists, including themselves, can interpret the world in particular ways in their artmaking • traditions associated with different forms such as drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and digital works • how pictures and other artworks invite interpretations from audiences |
Students in Stage 3 will
learn to: • think about their artmaking as a kind of social practice that employs both their own resources and their understanding of art • apply what they have learnt about concepts in the artworld to their artmaking • interpret subject matter which is of local interest in particular ways in their making of artworks • organise and assemble materials in various ways in the making of artworks suited to particular purposes and think about the meaning of their decisions • become critically focused in their judgements about artworks and artists and seek to explain their reasons learn about: • how artists engage in a form of social practice in making art and contribute to the field of the visual arts • a range of concepts and subject matter that is of interest to the artworld and community • how concepts and materials are thought about, organised and assembled, and serve different ends in artworks that they and others make • how artworks can be subject to different interpretations by artists and audiences • how audiences can form different opinions about artworks and artists |
updated March 2023
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