‘Whiskers’ by Julie Anna Douglas from our book ‘Painting Poems’.
What animal and insect sounds do you think the hare would hear early in the morning?
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‘Underwater Collage’ by Julie Anna Douglas. Why not download the worksheet that accompanies this poem? Or get out your paints or pencils and some paper and make your own Underwater Collage?
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Make your own collage fish.
You will need: Scissor, different types of paper, glue, pencil, pen, paint.
If you only have plain paper you can paint it with splashes and blobs of paint.
Cut out the fishes body shapes from patterned or coloured paper.
Cut out tail fin shapes from a different colour paper or tissue paper.
Glue the body shape to a background piece of paper. Draw or stick on fins. Draw the fishes faces with pencil or pen.
Colour the face and fins with paint, coloured pencils or felt tip pens.
Create a sea full of colourful fish using as many different colours and papers as you can find.
What other colourful sea creatures could you make using collage?
Download and print this spooky poem by Julie Anna Douglas and see if you can spot all the spooky things in the poem.
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From ‘Painting Poems’ by Julie Anna Douglas and Jools Wilson.
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I’ve started a new blog with my friend, Charlotte. We’ll be posting art and craft activities to amuse your kids and you. You can read the first post and make this paper pebble art here.
Another poem from the forthcoming book by Julie Anna Douglas. We hope you enjoy this and the accompanying free to download worksheet.
You can download the worksheet here.
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Copyright of the text belongs to Julie Anna Douglas. Copyright of the images belongs to Jools Wilson. Please share, use, enjoy, but do not sell or otherwise infringe our copyright. Please credit the author/illustrator when quoting/sharing the text/images.
A colouring sheet I made for my Young Archaeologists. Based on Old Sarum in Wiltshire. (Some artistic licence was employed about the position of the cathedral.)
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Here is a peep at the children’s poetry book I’ve illustrated for Julie Anna Douglas. It’s full of lovely poems and pictures and I think it will also appeal to grown up children. We hope it will inspire you play with words and art.
Here is ‘The Dragon’s Eyes’
We are planning a series of activity sheets to go with the book. They will be available to download FREE. Here is a taster. What do you think are the rules for looking after a dragon?
Proof copies have arrived and are looking good!
The book will be available to buy in a few weeks. Also look out for the free downloadable worksheets to accompany the book, which I will be posting on this site.
Today I ran a lovely session with my local Young Archaeologists group. We looked at cave painting and talked about what sort of materials were used to make it, and had a go at making some ourselves. Unfortunately we didn’t have a handy cave to decorate but we did have a big roll of paper, brushes made from sticks, some natural pigments, and some fat and water to mix the pigments with.
Here is some of the fabulous art they made.
When we had finished our fantastic cave gallery we whizzed forward in time for a brief look at Egyptian art and messed about with papyrus and ink to make some more stunning images.
Jools Wilson 