How to 3D your textiles!
Our textile projects are developing nicely- this week, we were looking to create three-dimensionality. With a lovely pile of assorted...
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Katy
Jan 21, 20221 min read
Developing textiles
We were using our wet-felted pieces from last week to develop more complicated textile pieces. With lots of fabrics to choose from, our...
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Katy
Jan 15, 20221 min read
New term for our art sessions
We started off the term by learning about wet-felting. Quite a good activity for a very cold day- using hot water, and needing to do very...
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Katy
Jan 12, 20221 min read
First forest school of the year!
It was a lovely bright, mild winters day, perfect for our first gathering after Christmas! The streams were high and fast, and sounded...
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Katy
Jan 9, 20221 min read
Art sessions…
You can see our talented young artists’ work on the Crow Wood Facebook page, but here’s a quick summary of the sessions before Christmas!...
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Katy
Nov 9, 20211 min read
Loving autumn forest school😍
A bit of a chilly day in the woods, and we took the lightweight fire bowl, plus a rucksack with all our essentials, for an adventure walk...
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Katy
Nov 9, 20211 min read
After school…
We will carry on with our after school sessions even as the nights are drawing in. We have fab lights in the greenhouse, which makes it a...
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Katy
Nov 5, 20211 min read
Autumn art!
We’re going to be doing a series of wire sculpture sessions in our home education art group, and we started off creating trees!
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Katy
Oct 6, 20211 min read
Goodbye to the beans!
They’ve been amazing, not least because they made such lovely, magical leafy archways everywhere, but today we decided the runner beans...
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Katy
Sep 17, 20211 min read
Home ed art sessions
We had a fabulous start to this term’s art sessions at the allotment! We used elderberries as the basis for watercolour paint, which was...
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Katy
Sep 14, 20211 min read
New exhibition for Air Arts
We have been collaborating with Air Arts at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB) for a number of years, exhibiting work as...
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Katy
Sep 12, 20211 min read
Outdoor cooking
The beginning of September and it’s been so hot! We cooked our first after school tea out in the shade, and moved the seating outside...
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Katy
Sep 11, 20211 min read
New term!
Our after school sessions are about to start, but on this last summer session, we tried our first sweet corn, as well as making wooden...
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Katy
Jun 28, 20211 min read
Introduction to carving
Our next art project is more 3D work. Over lockdown, our online art sessions concentrated on painting and drawing, so it's good to get...
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Katy
Jun 28, 20211 min read
More mosaics
After spending a few sessions using tesserae to make mosaics, we've gone a bit more industrial now, and are using pebbles and cement! The...
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Katy
Jun 28, 20211 min read
Summery Forest school
If ever proof were needed about how much we NEED TREES...then being in the woods on a really hot day just proves it! Trees not only...
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Katy
Jun 4, 20211 min read
Derby Umbrella sessions
We've just done our fourth session at Annie's Place, the centre where Derby Umbrella run their sessions for children and adults wth...
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Katy
May 16, 20211 min read
Home ed art group
Our in-person sessions at the allotment have started! We’re doing a series of workshops using two different ways of creating mosaics- the...
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Katy
Mar 26, 20212 min read
Spending time in woodland
Our second session of forest school this year was a bit colder than the first, as the sun stayed behind the clouds. The trees are still...
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Katy
Mar 23, 20211 min read
Forest Schools sessions start after 3 months away!
It was a beautiful afternoon to have the first of our forest school sessions since mid-December. The group is slightly smaller than...
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