Who's the Craft & Kids Club for? My Art & Craft after school classes in Murrumbeena are designed exclusively for creative minds aged 8 - 13. Whether your child is already passionate about art and craft or just dipping their toes into getting crafty, my classes are tailored to ...
The Craft & Cake Club – Melbourne workshops
Welcome to my vibrant world of art and craft workshops in Melbourne! Grab some friends and explore collage, printmaking, or paper flower making. My Melbourne craft workshops offer a unique blend of artistic expression and hands-on experience. Make time for yourself as you dive into ...
Trophies for the Mediocre inspired by Bonnie Hislop
Inspiring Creativity: Year 9 Students Trophies Inspired by Bonnie Hislop Engaging teenagers has always been a wild ride for educators and parents, but let's face it, things have totally changed these days. With all the tech gadgets, social media craze, and the ever-evolving interests of today's ...
Underwater sea paper clay sculptures
This project was inspired by the Zart Art Nurturing Creativity 2022 conference. I did a workshop with Juz Kitson and her porcelain sculptures were just exquisite. She was the perfect starting point for a paper clay project with my year 7s. We started by watching some beautiful videos about coral ...
Gel Plate Printing with Year 7
Can't tell you how much fun and satisfying this unit of work has been. It only took about 3 hours all up and I think the results are amazing. Gel printing is quick, relatively mess-free and the results are instant - which is fantastic with younger students! I had my class of 28 year 7 students, ...
Artists’ Books by Year 11
I think Artists’ Books are just the perfect project at Year 11 level. Their creation incorporates so many different skills and techniques and the idea of the artists’ book itself is often a novel one to students who have never done anything like it before. Each student selected a theme for ...
Eco-Printing on paper in the classroom
After MUCH experimenting with Eco-printing, I was finally ready to bring everything I'd learnt into my classroom. I'd collected the flora, I'd bought the alum, made the rust, cut the paper - I was ready! Then Victoria was thrown into the much loved, 5 days snap lockdown, that would eventually last ...
Printmaking at home with household items
Printmaking often involves lots of MATERIALS - from brayers, to printing inks, to pieces of lino, to carving tools, printing presses, the list goes on. The internet wasn't doing a very good job at giving me some printmaking ideas that I could get my Year 9 Art students to do at home - so here are ...
Leaf embossing with Tea
Lockdown 5.0 here in Melbourne at the moment and we're back to remote learning. My year 9s started a unit on Nature & Printmaking before we went into lockdown and because our lockdown was SO sudden, none of my students were able to grab a few supplies from school to take home. SO... I scoured ...
Let Nature Be Thy Medicine
An absolutely wonderful day out and about creating art hosted by the team at Zart Art. Set amongst the beautiful colours and sounds of the Royal Botanic Gardens, this workshop was entitled Let Nature Be Thy Medicine. It was truly special. As the sun shone we collected and foraged for ...
Pajaki Chandelier
These gorgeous paper chandeliers originated in Poland. They are a Polish folk craft that was used to add fun and cheer to their homes in the gloomy winter months. I was introduced to the craft through a workshop at my local library run by the lovely Beci Orpin. Beci walked a group of us ...
Magical wands and glorious crowns
Every Term 1, our school invites Grade 4 and 5 students from the local Primary Schools to visit our school for a 'Taster Day'. It's a great opportunity for the local kids to experience a day in the life of high school! We were lucky enough to squeeze in our Taster day this year before we all ...
20 theme specific ART MAKING PROMPTS
Remote learning. The novelty has well and truly worn off. Turning up to a computer screen in the morning is not what I signed up for when I became a teacher. But I guess, what many of us are going through at the moment isn't exactly what we signed up for! And so it's been hard. Teaching ART ...
COVID-19 Stay At Home Art Supplies Guide – 8 supplies you can easily make at home!
SO, school's online now! Ha! Easy! NOT. But we all have to do our bit yeh? Many of my students don't have access to Art supplies like air dry clay, gesso etc, so I wanted to put together a list of my top 8 DIY art supplies. Some so called 'DIY Art supply recipes' call for plaster of paris, ...
Frozen Party Bags for that Frozen party you may be forced to have!
I can’t begin to tell you how many times I have listened to the Frozen soundtrack. Yes, I’ve seen the movie a handful of times (and LOVE it), but the soundtrack, well.. that is on constant rotation. I know every word of every song and I am DYING to have some new songs to learn with the release of ...
GIRL STUFF giveaway!
Oh for heaven’s sake! This GIRL STUFF giveaway was just too freakin’ fun to shoot! Every thing was just so photogenic! And YES! It’s very girly, but who’s to say young lads won’t enjoy the bath bomb or the apron or the popsicle soap?! Heck, I know my little guy will be wearing his older sister’s ...
Dinosaur, Unicorn and Rainbow party bag activity books! Pop them in your Eco party bags!
As part of my crusade to reduce the crappy plastic stuff that we usually find in goody bags, here's another little contribution. Party bag activity books! They come in 3 designs, Dinosaurs, Unicorns and Rainbows. Each book is printed in full colour and features 6 different activities! They're A6 ...
Plastic free party bag fillers! The Top 20 list.
Many think the days of Party bags are over. But I think most will agree that they hold fond memories of receiving that little party bag when they said goodbye at their friends' birthday parties! In those days, of course, you likely would have received one of those little white plastic ones with the ...
Sister appreciation post
Thought it was about time I did a little blatant promotion of my sister, Claudia. She's a lot younger than me and she was the sister that I always wanted as I was growing up. She may have been born in the 90s which to me, seems like last year, but she has already done some great things with her ...
The Party Bag Lady’s (me!) SUPER tote bag giveaway!
This was a real hoot to organise and I'm so pleased with how everything turned out! Would you just look at the all the marvellous goodies you could win?! I teamed up with some super talented gals to put together a SUPER TOTE BAG chock full of loveliness. To enter all you need to do is visit ...
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