Art Activity: Objects with Attitude

March 24 2020

Written by Mrs Q.

March 24 2020

Written by Mrs Q.

You will need:

Different household objects

Scissors

Cartridge paper or light card

Pencil

Markers or paint pens

Sticky tape or double-sided tape

Duration:

From 40mins to 1.5 hrs

Age:

5-8 years

This weeks activity is adapted from Objects with Attitude from the book Think and Make Like An Artist. We decided to come up with a theme for a set of characters we could make from household objects - the theme we picked was “candy princess”. We collected different objects from around the house - deliberately looking for items that had interesting shapes and textures that we could use for the “bodies” of our characters.

1. On thick paper or card, have your child draw different facial features or body parts that relate to your theme. Start off in pencil, reminding them to press lightly. Then have them colour them in with markers and paint pens.

2. Grown ups will need to help with this bit! Cut our each of the parts.

3. Sticky tape each of the facial features and parts to each of the objects that you have chosen to create a set of characters! You can use double-sided tape, or fold the sticky tape over itself.

4. Now you have a cast of characters! For our candy princess theme, we created a candy burglar (the torch), and role-played a scene where the burglar stole the last chocolate flake of the candy princess kingdom. Be as creative as you like! Share your ideas with us on instagram @insideartspace.