Literature and Visual Arts Literature and Visual Arts by Nika Normanby Nika Norman

Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley (Aaron Blake)The Peasant Prince (Li Cunxin)

Lucy Goosey (Margaret Wild)Cat (Mike Dumbleton)

Crow and the Waterhole (Ambelin Kwaymullina)The Empty City (David Megarrity)

Ock Von Fiend (Luke Edwards)Ziba Came on a Boat (Liz Lofthouse)

Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp (Odo Hirsch)The Night Garden (Elise Hurst)

Shh! Little Mouse (Pamela Allen)You and Me and Our Place (Leonie Norrington)

Parsley Rabbit’s Book about Books (Frances Watts)The Antarctic Book – Living in the freezer (Dr Mark Norman)

The Shaggy Gully Times (Jackie French)The Key to Rondo (Emily Rodda)

Fuel Your MindBook Week 2008

Written by Nika Norman

Literature and the Creative Arts don’t have to wait till Book Week.Try some of these ideas, adapt them any time as a follow up to reading your

favourite book or during a thematic unit.Have a great time experimenting and trying new things.

Nika Norman

Pearl Barley and Charlie ParsleyBy Aaron Blake

Cardboard print of friends.Using thin card cut out facial features and body parts separately and layer shapes .Glue with PVA.To print use foam rollers and paint or use rubber rollers and printing ink.

My Friend

Mono PrintOn the back of the paper draw a continuous line drawing of a friend.

Using a rubber roller, roll out printing ink on a smooth surface( perspex

or thick plastic taped to the desk.)

Place paper picture side up on ink, do not touch the paper, carefully

trace the picture with a pencil and lift off.

When the picture is dry paint with dyes or wash paint.

The Peasant Princeby Li Cunxin

Figure drawing. Directed lessons in proportion

The Peasant Prince

Draw in pencil and trace over with

felt tip pen.

Erase pencil lines.

Shade areas with watercolour

pencil.

Apply water to coloured areas.

Lucy Gooseyby Margaret Wild

Soft chalk pastelDemonstrate techniques using

chalk pastels- layering, blending, crosshatching, drawing.

Use white or coloured paper for

the background.

Catby Mike Dumbleton

• Photocopy cat and other characters from the story.

• Create a background in crayons.

• Cut out and paste characters to the background.

• Apply wash paint to the picture.

The Empty CityDavid Megarrity

Create individual collage pictures of your favourite shop.

Use old wrapping papers, wallpapers, junk mail, scrap brenex paper.

Use felt tip pens to draw in details.

These could then be collated into a class frieze.

Crow and the Waterholeby Ambelin Kwaymullina

Masks for Readers Theatre

Create masks from thin foam or cardboard.Cut an inner semi circle to form the headband.

Make the eye holes by putting the mask on and then touching and marking where the eye holes should be. Remove the mask and cut the holes.

Draw , cut out and attach the features with staples and then paint.

Crow and Waterhole

Recreate illustrations from the story.Draw the picture in a light coloured chalk pastel.Colour in with oil pastels.Apply a watery layer of black paint and dab off with tissues to reveal the crayon areas.Create the characters separately . Cut out and attach with masking tape to give a 3D appearance.

Ock Von Fiendby Luke Edwards

Collect pictures of old houses.

Draw with felt tip pens.

Apply water colour pencils

then add water.

Create a character that would

live in the house.

Strange charactersObserve and discuss Picasso’s cubist

portraits.

Collect large pictures of people from magazines and cut out each facial feature.

Create a portrait using cut outs and oil pastels.

Add edicole dyes in complementary colours.

Ziba Came on a BoatBy Liz Lofthouse

The past.Use teabags or brown wash tocreate a background.Directed drawing lessons onportraiture .Draw a portrait of yourself and a family memberUse charcoal and chalks.

The journey.Use sponges to create a storm.Create the boat by using a pieceof cardboard to apply the paint.

Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp

by Odo Hirsch

The Lamp.Enlarge and copy on thin card the

net of a truncated hecatogonal

pyramid.

On each panel draw an animal- a

peacock, eagle, tiger, monkey,

rhinoceros.

Construct the lamp and hang.

Flame/Lamp SculptureCut the end off a wire coat hanger and manipulate the wire

into a shape. Push the end into a block of polystyrene.Stretch a stocking leg over the wire and base and tie a knot.

Apply two to three coats of watered down PVA. Paint with a design when dry.

The Night Gardenby Elise Hurst

Polystyrene sculptureScraps of polystyrene can be joined with

tooth picks or skewers to create a hedge

monster.

Diorama

Create a hedge grove in a shoe box

Large library entranceCut a large fridge box diagonally

from top to bottom on the side panels

to create two free standing panels.

Draw a monster and paint with sponges

to give texture.

Shh! Little Mouseby Pamela Allen

Retell the story adding extra pages.

Backgrounds

Crayon rubbings of surfaces.

Edicole ink washes.

Printing.

Use real fruit.

Cut shapes from polystyrene.

Create stencils from overhead

projector plastic and use sponges

to apply paint.

You and Me and Our Placeby Leonie Norrington

Chalk pastel pictures.

Ariel view of your home.

Under the sea mural.

Create a large background.

Draw individual sea creatures, cut out

and mount using masking tape.

Collage of the beach.

Draw the beach using chalk pastels.

Apply PVA and real sand on the picture.

Create individual figures and glue onto background.

Parsley Rabbit’s Book about Books

By Frances WattsCreate a book mark from thin

card.

Construct a stretch rabbit.

Concertina fold paper and cut

alternately from folded sides.

Plasticene Rabbit.

The Antarctic Book – Living in the freezer

Dr Mark Norman

Individual or large frieze.

Water- blue cellophane

Ice and snow –crumpled copy paper.

Penguins – copies in different sizes.

Sea spiders- pipe cleaners.

Blue whale- Blue balloon.

Snow Petrel- 3D construction

The Shaggy Gully Timesby Jackie French

Cramped ConditionsCut paper into different shapes.

Draw animals in these shapes touching at least 3 sides.

Paint.

Trace in black texta and add bars.

Wanted PostersCollect pictures of animals and

enlarge.

Choose portions of the animals to

copy into a section of the art paper.

Draw and trace in black texta.

Paint.

Crazy CrittersFold a piece of paper into four.

Draw the head in the first section.

Pass to another person to draw

the neck.

Fold back to hide the head and neck.

Pass the paper to next person to

draw the body.

Lastly draw the tail. Unfold the paper

and give the animal a new name.

The Key to Rondoby Emily Rodda

The Music boxPaint a shoe box black.

Create panels to fit all four side of

the box.

Read descriptions of panels to

students .( page 2)

Draw in black felt tip pen and

colour in water colour pencils and

apply water.

Glue to side of the box. Line box

with material.

Monsters

Sculpture

Read the description of the

monster to students ( Page 301).

Use wire, polystyrene balls and

Scraps, pipe cleaners, feathers,

material scraps, textas, and any

odds and ends to create a

monster.