In year 3 art, the children have spent the past three weeks making a bowl using a mould and gummed paper.
In the first lesson, they covered a cone (the mould) with tissue paper and attached it using masking tape. Then they covered the tissue paper with brown gummed tape. They had to wet the adhesive side and carefully apply two or three layers of gummed paper to take the shape of the cone.
The following lesson, when the gummed paper had dried, they pulled off the masking tape and wriggled the cone out of the tissue paper. It was now firm and had taken the shape of the cone. We trimmed the edge of the bowl neatly, and painted the whole outside white as a primer.
Lastly, they collected visual notes using artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Howard Hodgkin as inspiration for the design of their bowl then transferred designs onto their 3D bowl using brightly coloured paint.
Here are some of our finished bowls, aren't they spectacular?
