Children at The Froebelian
School in Horsforth, Leeds, have been involved in a whole school Art Project,
celebrating the diversity of cultures and fashion around the world. At a time
when there is much political unrest in so many countries around the world, the
project portrays a powerful visual image of how we could all live together in
harmony.
The impressive display is made
up of individual characters, each created from an ordinary wooden spoon. Every
child in the school, from the three year olds to the eleven year olds was given
the opportunity to work on the art project, creating their own “Spoon person”.
These “people” were based on themselves, famous people, or well-known
characters, which were brought together at the end of the intensive Art Week to
create a collection of more than 200 people from around the world.
Froebelian school were delighted
to invite the renowned Alan Hydes, ‘artist to the stars’, into school who
commented upon our themed mural ‘All around the world’.
Alan Hydes pictured with Bethany, School Art Captain
Alan said ‘I am very impressed
with what I saw and the Art Coordinator, Mrs Nicky Smith, should be commended
for introducing an interesting project for the children of this age group’.
He went on to say that ‘this is
a terrific idea to use something as simplistic as a starting point as a wooden
spoon to allow children’s imagination to go wild with ideas by creating
characters either by simply drawing onto the spoon or creating such elaborate
and detailed designs’.
Images from the week will be
posted onto the site shortly.
