Totally Tubular Bracelets

These Spring school holidays, Maxine from Blaxland Library and I taught some ‘Totally Tubular’ classes - making jewellery and decorations using clear vinyl tubing. The results are stunning and they were great fun to make!

We offered several projects during each class -
*Wrapping textured and coloured wool around tubing to create bracelets and hangings (linked like paper chains)
*Filling tubes with fabric, seed beads, glitter and sequins (with or without adding baby oil for a floaty effect)
*Pouring glow paint and glitter into the tubing    

Each bracelet was sealed using waterproof superglue (only adults could do this step!) on a piece of wood dowel, which fit snugly in the two ends of tubing.

Artworks Inspired by Artist Sarah Goffman

Blaxland Art Class today created fun works with recycled materials and electrician’s tape. Inspired by plastic bottle artworks made by Australian artist Sarah Goffman, some of these artworks are even functional!

Brightly-coloured pencil holder 

Striped goblet, with red jewels

Laser hand

Bus with doggy door

Boom!

Functional plastic teacup with handle

Rainbow striped rings

Musical instrument

Great work!

Book Cover Art Competition

Thanks to all the kids that entered the library’s Book Cover Art Competition - the artworks are wonderful!  The judging will take place over the next couple of weeks, but in the meantime, have a look at all of the great entries in this video slideshow:

If you entered this year, can you spot your work?

African Animals

Springwood art class created wonderful images of African animals today, through drawing and sticker-paper collage. I really love the colourful results!

Rainbow Scratch-board Drawings

Today at Blaxland Library we used pre-made scratch-boards from Cleverpatch to make colourful rainbow etchings. Using pre-made boards saved a lot of time, but another class idea would be to one week make the scratch-boards up (paint colourful backgrounds on cardboard, and when dry cover completely in black wax crayon) and the second week to scratch through the wax crayon. 

The kids in this class used various implements to scratch through the black layer, like paper clips and blunt wooden shapes. 

Perfect for silhouette art

GREAT WORK EVERYONE!