Ms O'Sullivan's page

Welcome to Ms O'Sullivan's page.

Alongside the home learning resources which our teachers are sharing with you during this time when many of us are learning at home or working from home, I thought it would be nice if I shared some things too, including ideas for art projects and some stories to listen to.
If you click on the red buttons these will take you to videos which introduce activities or where you can watch and listen. If you hover over, or click on some of the pictures, captions will appear with more instructions.
Even though I am very busy most of the time, I will try and find the time to add new bits quite regularly. Please do take a look from time to time to see if there is anything of interest to you.

This page is to share.......

...creative ideas with the children

Art from under the Stairs

Introduction to Print Workshop

Vegetable Print Artwork

If you want your finished print to have a border, you can quickly make a simple frame to print into. You might need a grown-up to help with the cutting.

Use a ruler to draw a line a ruler width in from each edge of a piece of paper

Carefully cut along the lines until...

...you have made a simple frame. You might want a grown-up to help with this too.

Then, lay your frame over another piece of paper and attach with paper clips or tape

Making a vegetable print rainbow

First choose your vegetable. Make sure you ask a grown-up if you can use it - you don't want to use anything needed for dinner!

If your vegetable needs chopping with a knife, you must ask a grown-up to help with this!

For this print you will also need some paper, an old plate, a paintbrush, a pot of water, some paints in primary colours - red, yellow, blue. Any kind of water-based paint will do.

Once your your materials are ready, you can start....
(Hover over the pictures for instructions)

Take off the frame and your beautiful rainbow print is ready to put up in the window.

Artichoke Print

You can use the same sort of techniques to produce artwork that looks quite different too. The workshop below explores pattern and line rather than colour, with pleasing results.

This time, instead of paint, I have used water-based printing ink and a roller. If you don't have these though you can use paint and a brush for this too.

Then I got my other resources ready.

Time to begin printing...

Take off the printing frame, add a border and the finished artwork is ready!

Shiny Model Robot

Introduction to Robot Workshop

First, you need to gather some of the things you need to make your robot. Most of them can be found around the house although you might need to ask a grown up to buy some chocolates with shiny foil and cellophane wrappers - Quality Street have the best colours for this project but any shiny wrappers will do.

Some cardboard boxes and tubes

Scissors, sellotape and maybe some glue

Silver foil and some shiny sweet wrappers-Quality Street are best

Some buttons or some bottle tops

Once you have chosen which boxes you are going to use, you might need to cut some so they are the right size and shape. Then, you need to cover them with silver foil. You can stick down the loose edges with sellotape. It doesn't matter if it shows.

Next, you need to sort out your sweet wrappers into different colours. Which colour wrapper do you have most of ? Use that colour to cover your biggest box.

Once all your shapes are wrapped, you can begin joining the bits of your robot together. It is still OK to use sellotape because it is shiny like the cellophane and foil.

Then you can add as many little details as you like to make your robot look really special.

What other robot designs could you make?

Photograph/drawing workshop

Rose&bloom's photo workshop

Here are the photo-drawings of my daughter, Grace, that I showed you in the video. It is such an easy thing to do and photo-drawings that you made of yourselves would be such a lovely present for members of your family.

First, you choose your photograph and then ask a grown up to print it out for you but in black & white - just onto ordinary paper.
Then you cut around your photograph and carefully stick it onto a larger piece of paper.

Then you can begin to draw. Extend the lines at the edge of the photograph and then use your pencil in different ways to match where it is light and dark.
Keep going until you are happy with the way your image looks.

Next, you can use a small amount of paint, either water colour or poster paint will be fine. Just to highlight some details of you, like your hair colour or the colour of your clothes.