Children’s Reflections

Children when making instructions were quite ambitious…building time machines and portals were part of the equation…. children tested instructions and passed them on to another group (at the start of the day we had played Chinese Whispers, incredibly there was very little corruption – this is a class of good listeners) Children made drawings by following the instructions given by each group, there was plenty of room for interpretation.

After making the drawings we looked at the work and described it- and found that many of the drawings described time or growth in one way or another..  there was ‘the onion’ – a stone in water creating ripples, the rings of a tree (which were drawn going in and spreading out – as one artist put it, ‘going backwards and forwards in time’), hypnotic circles, peas in a pod, frog spawn, a pyramid that was also a cape, a triangle that contained a town, (and diamonds – treasure), the idea of shelter, repetition, numbers, hopscotch, footsteps and stepping stones, a journey.

After lunch children reflected again on the morning’s activities and also on ideas we had been looking at from Richard Serra’s action list – making drawings in a different material we described the quality of straws and pipe-cleaners:

soft pointy bendy, straight, plastic, furry and actions: twist, bend, flatten, bundle…

children made drawing with these materials

then turned the drawings into sculptures, trying to make them stand

Wormhole

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Pod

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a pod? or a gem from the cape/pyramid drawing…?

 

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potato with ketchup in pan

 

Bundle

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Cape/Pyramid

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More pods and collections

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