Corgi's and Crowns

Today is the final blog in my five day bonanza of Jubilee art and crafts ideas for Primary Education.

In today's blog we look at one of the Queens favourites, a beautiful Corgi decoration.

Key Skills: Colour, form and Shape

Materials: Felt material, ribbon, PVA glue, thread, sewing needle, stuffing and glitter glue

Vocab: Pattern, cut, sew, layer, language relating to sewing such as thread, stitch, blanket stitch, cast off

Learning Objectives :

To make a small felt decoration that represents the Jubilee celebrations

To develop sewing and embroidery skills

To understand the importance of design work

To explore the use of felt material to make objects

To develop cutting skills

Process:

Stage 1: Take some time to draw your design out on a piece of paper. Think about what decoration you would like. You will need to  make a template to draw around on your felt paper. You can use a stencil or free hand for this – or alternatively research an image you would like to use from the Internet. Print this off to the size required. Cut out the shape and trace around the edge of the cut out on the felt.

Stage 2: Collect the fabric you require. As you do not need a lot of fabric for this activity, this is a great way of using up scraps of material.

Stage 3: For my Corgi I have cut out two brown felt dog shapes. Using the image I found on line.

Stage 4: Using a contrasting coloured felt, I cut out patches for the face and the chest part of the corgi.

Step 5: using a slip stitch, stitch the contrasting panels in positions on one of the pre-cut piece of brown felt. I have used the slip stitch to add a fur texture to the piece.

Step 6: Using black thread stitch on the facial details. For smaller children you could use small buttons or sequins and glue these on for the facial features.

Step 7: Using a blanket stitch the two pre-cut corgis shapes together. Leave a small gap to allow you to stuff the decoration to add form.

Step 8: Sew up the opening, I have added a piece of string on the top of the corgi’s head to allow my decoration to be hung up.

Step 9: Embellish your decoration. I have added a crown, bow and necklace to my corgi to make him fit for the finest Jubilee party.

An alternative design, on this piece I have made a small teacup in the centre with a teabag hanging from the cup with the quote “Keep calm and Carry on”.

Differentiation:

Key Stage 1: You can use a hand held hole punch such as http://www.fiskarscraft.co.uk/Products/Craft/Punches/Eyelet-Setter/Eyelet-Setter-Pack to make holes in the felt to make it easier to sew for younger pupils. Alternatively younger children can use PVA glue to stick their rosette together. You could also make the rosette in the same manner using tissue paper of funky foam. Why not experiment with a few materials?

Key Stage 2: Think about what your decoration is going to be used for? Will it hang on a bag, a mobile phone, a magnet, be made into a keyring or simply a decoration to hang up in the house.

That's the last entry for now for my Jubilee arts and crafts. Don't forget I would be delighted to see pictures of any work you have created for a special Jubilee art Blog in June. Send your images to lisamart@hotmail.co.uk

Jubilee Art - Queens’s face/vase picture

This week I will be blogging a different Jubilee Art Idea each day. I am trailing a new format to differentiate blogs about my work and workshop/educational ideas. I have included a full lesson plan with this blog, allowing teaching staff to print off and make full use of. I would be really interested in any feedback.

Here we go:

Key Skills: Shape, Form and Space

Materials: Picture of the Queen from a profile viewpoint, Pencil, Rubber, Colour pencils or pastels, cartridge paper

Vocab :

Parts of the upper body (shoulders and face), different names of line and shapes, words related to the exercise such as symmetry, upside-down, contour and sequencing language such as first, then, next etc

Learning Objectives :

To use an internet search engine to resource images

To learn how to draw symmetrical objects

To learn about the relationship between lines, edges and spaces

To establish techniques of applying colour

To develop skills of observation

To Increase their self-confidence in drawing

Process:

Step 1 – Find a picture of the Queen in profile, children can do this using the computers by carrying out a search on Google or the main school computer search engine. If you do not have access to a computer you could find a picture from a news paper, magazine or even a stamp.

Step 2 – Save the picture in a file on the computer and print off. If you have found your image from a magazine, newspaper etc, you could photocopy this to a workable size.

Step 3 – Using a pencil, draw a single contour line (outlining) the key facial points of the Queen.

Step 4 – Spend a few minutes observing the contour line of the Queens face you have drawn, look at the gap between the crown/hairline, hairline/eye socket, eye socket/nose etc.

Step 5 – Focusing on the contour line you have already drawn, aim to mirror the image using in a single line opposite your drawn line. Make sure that you are observing what you have drawn on the opposite site as you are drawing.

Step 6 – Using a curved line, draw a single line to join the top of the two side profile lines, repeat this at the bottom of the vase to complete the outline of your Queens head vase.

 

Step 7 – Draw a frame around the vase and add a shelf, table, platform for the vase to minimise the “floating” effect.

 

Step 8 – Shade in the opening of the vase to create the illusion of a 3D vase.

 

Step 9 – Fill in the vase with a Jubilee image, flag design, pattern, poem of the Jubilee or even collage materials – you are only limited by your imagination.

 

Step 10 – Cut around the square and mount on coloured paper to complete your vase/face picture. These have a great impact as part of a wall display.

Differentiation:

Key stage one – prepare a template for the children to draw around. Glue a picture of the Queen in profile onto a piece of good quality card. Allow this to dry and then cut out. Children can use the template to draw around to create one side of the vase. Gifted and talented children can try to mirror the face to create the vase. Alternatively children can be instructed to flip the template over to give the reverse image and draw around this. Children can then colour, write or draw in the vase to create a representation for the Jubilee.

Key Stage two– You could experiment with a young and older picture of the queen in profile. Work as instructed above but have the children draw one side of the vase from a picture of the queen during her coronation year and the other side of the vase from a picture of the Queen in 2012. Try to ensure that the key facial features are in line.

Let me know how you get on, please forward any pictures to lisamart@hotmail.co.uk