Lesson 4: Giant spider model part 1
Working as a class to recreate Louise Bourgeois' 'Maman' spider sculpture, the children will plan and create the legs and body of the spider.
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Explain that the children will work with a partner to remember and describe how to create a 3D Tree of life sculpture. Display the Presentation: Fact tennis and arrange the children in pairs. Ask them to take turns describing the techniques they used and how they made different parts. Let them know they should keep going until told to stop.
Allow the activity to run for about one minute.
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Simon is a teacher, cartoonist and artist. He uses his 25 years of experience to teach art in schools and has his own workshop business ‘Scartoons’ in which children create comic characters and strips. Simon is a member of The Cartoonists Club of Great Britain and has used his artistic talents to paint murals as well as designing and painting the scenery for several successful musical productions in Stoke-on-Trent. Simon’s cartoon book, “Dad, Seriously” was published in 2016 and reached no.8 on the Amazon Bestseller list for its category.
Simon designed our free lesson on painting willow patterns inspired by the history of ‘chinoiserie’ pottery as well as many other classes in our Art & Design subject.
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