Join artist Joey Yu and learn how to paint or draw to a piece of music. Interpret the sounds and draw a dancer dancing across your page!
You will need:
paper
paint (any type will do, or you can use something to draw with like pencils or pens)
brushes
cardboard to use as a palette
water to clean your brush
Find the full activity here: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/draw-dancer
Settle in for a story about artist Etel Adnan. How did she decide to become an artist? What inspired her?
Find the full story here: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-etel-adnan
Grab some paper, scissors, glue and card and make your own DIY 3D paper sculpture, inspired by a sculpture by Michael Bolus.
You will need:
coloured paper, newspaper or scrap paper
old cardboard or card from a cereal box
scissors
glue stick
Find the full activity here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEI3clnsyyU
Kirstie Beaven leads a 20-minute workshop where she will teach you to how to make a soundscape.
YOU WILL NEED
Paper
Pens or pencils
Crayons if you have them
Scrap packaging like cardboard boxes, bubble wrap or string (things with interesting textures will be useful)
Scissors
Glue stick
You might want headphones to listen to the sounds
Check out the full activity on Tate Kids: www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/make-soundscape
Do you know what your senses are? When you touch, smell, see, taste or hear something, you are using one of your senses. A sensory sculpture is a sculpture that uses your senses. You might be able to see it, hear it or smell it!
YOU WILL NEED
A glass or plastic bottle or a jam jar with a lid
Some plasticine or sticky tack to fill the top of the bottle
Scissors
Tape
Water
Food colouring
To add the ‘sensory’ parts of the sculpture you could choose from many different objects. Here are some ideas:
Coloured card, scrap paper or newspaper
Tissue paper or crepe paper
Fabric (maybe an old sock, scarf or t-shirt that you don’t use anymore and can be cut up)
Tin foil or baking parchment
Shiny plastic wrappers or sticky-back plastic
Baking beads
Find the full resource on Tate Kids: www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/sculpture/make-sensory-sculpture
As a young girl Rego spent hours drawing in her playroom at her grandmother’s house. She had a great imagination, and remembers that she was ‘afraid of everything’. Her parents encouraged her to become an artist, so she came to London to study at art school.
Rego’s pictures are often inspired by stories – from the traditional folk tales and nursery rhymes she heard her grandmother tell when she was a young girl to books that she has read more recently. Many of her paintings include different characters, and some groups of work tell a story that unfolds over a series of pictures.
Learn more about the artist: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-paula-rego
Paint like an artist in this painting game: www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/tate-paint
Play cool free art games, digital painting, quizzes and puzzles on Tate Kids.
Meet the artist who connects different cultures and reveals hidden histories!
Find out more on Tate Kids:
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-yinka-shonibare
Bright colours, bold brushstrokes and a rebellious spirit! Find out more about the impressionist painters including Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot and Camille Pissarro.
The thing is, impressionist artists were not trying to paint a reflection of real life, but an ‘impression’ of what the person, light, atmosphere, object or landscape looked like to them. And that’s why they were called impressionists! They tried to capture the movement and life of what they saw and show it to us as if it were happening before our eyes.
Find out more:
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/what-is/impressionism
How can an art gallery inspire you to tell your own stories?
Watch the film: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/kids-view/jacqueline-wilsons-magical-tour-tate-britain
Learn about the artist Alfred Wallis and discover how to create a picture with sand. Grab some sand and create some art inspired by the seaside!
Find our more: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/sand-art-picture
Learn how to potato print and make some arty designs to wrap your present. Learn about the life and artwork of the artist Terry Frost.
Find out more: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/wrapping-paper
You might know the name van Gogh, but do you know who he really was?
Find out about the artist’s life and work: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-vincent-van-gogh
Be inspired by the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth and learn how to soap carve
Find out more: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/sculpture/soap-carving
Discover how these artists draw people and clothes and learn about the artists’ life and artwork.
Find out more: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/draw-pre-raphaelite
Create an arty bracelet to wear or give to a friend! Learn how to weave and discover the artist Anni Albers’ life and work.
Find out more: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/cut-paste/make-friendship-bracelet
Be inspired by the abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock and create some yummy art which you can eat with your friends!
Watch video here: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/make-chocolate-painting