After our aquatic explorations of the past couple of weeks, we were back on terra firma on Thursday in the Art Room to seek out different subjects from the land on which we live.  Our Preschoolers travelled far and wide and found inspiration in the lush, green clearings of the jungle while our Afterschool artists stayed closer to home, creating works inspired by the season in our local park.

We continued to investigate our marine theme in The Art Room this week and across our classes we explored how we might achieve movement and dynamism in our art works.

We left the heights of a sunlit sky and took a dive under the water in the Art Room this week to explore a new, two-week subaquatic theme.

Our creative adventures continued to float skyward this week in the Art Room as our artists went up, up and away in their very own hot air balloons!

The stars quite literally aligned for The Art Room this week as an extraordinary, real-life, planetary parade took place in the skies above Harpenden, which could not have been a better complement to our celestial art theme!

Love was in the air this week in the Art Room as we made lots of swoon-some art works that were inspired by the traditions and symbols associated with Valentine’s Day, celebrated across the world on 14 February. 

‘Reimagine your world’ is this year’s theme for National Storytelling Week, 1 - 9 February 2025. This week in the Art Room, we drew inspiration from our own favourite tales.

This week, millions of families across the world held celebrations to mark the Lunar New Year. On 29 January 2025, Chinese and other Asian communities ushered in the Year of the Snake, the sixth of twelve animals represented in the cycle of symbols from the Chinese zodiac, welcoming in good fortune and prosperity.

In The Art Room this week, we took inspiration from the top ten birds spotted in 2024 during the RSPB’s The Big Garden Bird Watch.

This week at the Art Room we continued our exploration of drawing by focusing on texture.

For our first session back in The Art Room after Christmas, we wanted to take things gently and warmed up our creativity by practicing our drawing skills... 

With Christmas just around the corner, everyone at the Art Room got busy making festive decorations and miniature sculptures from card and clay this week.

Across the globe this week, many small acts of kindness were made to celebrate World Kindness Day.

The Art Room was back with a bang yesterday and plenty of sparkle too!

This week in The Art Room, we took inspiration from the world around us and our art was filled with the beautiful shapes and colours of autumn.

This week in The Art Room we went back in time to learn about a group of artists from 19th century Paris.