This week, HFS students enjoyed a variety of Halloween-themed art activities.
The upper-year students created different Halloween character masks, drew skeletons, and designed Halloween posters.
The younger students expressed witches over their own face photos, made pumpkin baskets, and created 3D spiders and spider webs.
It was a week full of fun and creative art lessons.
Have a wonderful holiday, and see you in November!
This week, HFS students enjoyed a variety of Halloween-themed art activities.
The upper-year students created different Halloween character masks, drew skeletons, and designed Halloween posters.
The younger students expressed witches over their own face photos, made pumpkin baskets, and created 3D spiders and spider webs.
It was a week full of fun and creative art lessons.
Have a wonderful holiday, and see you in November!
This week, HFS students enjoyed a variety of Halloween-themed art activities.
The upper-year students created different Halloween character masks, drew skeletons, and designed Halloween posters.
The younger students expressed witches over their own face photos, made pumpkin baskets, and created 3D spiders and spider webs.
It was a week full of fun and creative art lessons.
Have a wonderful holiday, and see you in November!
This week, HFS students enjoyed a variety of Halloween-themed art activities.
The upper-year students created different Halloween character masks, drew skeletons, and designed Halloween posters.
The younger students expressed witches over their own face photos, made pumpkin baskets, and created 3D spiders and spider webs.
It was a week full of fun and creative art lessons.
Have a wonderful holiday, and see you in November!
This week, the children celebrated Halloween through a fun and colourful art project.
They began by drawing spider webs, recalling what they had learned about primary and secondary colours to make their webs bright and creative. The children enjoyed experimenting with different colour combinations and patterns to fill their spooky designs.
Next, they made 3D spiders using recycled egg containers. Each child carefully painted their spider body black using tempera paint, then added googly eyes and crafted legs from strips of paper. The classroom buzzed with excitement and laughter as their spooky spiders came to life!
In our next session, the children will use yarn to connect and attach their spiders to their colourful webs, completing their Halloween-themed creations. This project has been a wonderful way for the children to express their creativity while revisiting key colour theory concepts in a festive atmosphere.
This week, the children explored Claude Monet’s Garden and learned about his famous painting The Water-Lily Pond. They focused on how Monet captured light and colour in his work. The children used oil pastels to draw the bridge, carefully layering different colours to create depth and texture. In the next session, they will continue by painting the water lilies and background using acrylic paints.
In one of the sessions, to celebrate the upcoming Halloween, the children had a fun creative activity making treat baskets. They used paper cups and orange paper to shape their baskets, then decorated them with spooky eyes, noses, and mouths. It was a joyful and festive way to welcome the Halloween season!
This week, the children proudly completed their Self-Expression on Their Magazine project.
They showcased their individuality by designing magazine covers that reflected their personalities, hobbies, and dreams, using a mix of drawing, collage, and typography techniques.
We also began learning about the French artist Jean Jullien, known for his bold lines, humour, and expressive illustrations. The children explored how Jullien uses simple shapes and emotions to tell powerful visual stories. They then created their own artworks inspired by his style, combining observation, creativity, and imagination.
We have been exploring the 7 Elements of Art — line, shape, form, space, texture, value, and colour — through a creative, leaf-inspired project. Each pupil selected a leaf shape and divided it into sections to represent each element visually.
They experimented with a variety of techniques and materials to express the different elements, using both drawing and mixed media to highlight contrast, pattern, texture, and depth. This hands-on activity not only deepened their understanding of key art concepts but also encouraged individuality and creative thinking.
The final pieces are vibrant and thoughtful, showcasing both technical skill and personal expression.
This week, our Year 1–2 children explored how colours can express emotions.
We began by sharing ideas about what feelings different colours bring to mind. Then the children experimented by blowing paint to create imaginative patterns, which became the base for their very own “Emotion Monsters.” Each student added unique facial expressions and body parts, showing creativity and individuality.
In the second session, we learned about primary and secondary colours. The children played a fun quiz game, guessing whether colours were primary or secondary, and then enjoyed mixing paints to create new colours of their choice. Through this activity, they gained a clear understanding of colour relationships and were excited to experiment further. We are so proud of how well the children engaged with both the creative and learning aspects of this project. Their curiosity, teamwork, and enthusiasm shone brightly. Well done, everyone!
Discovering Impressionism with Monet This week, our students began learning about Impressionism, an art movement that started in the late 1800s.
At that time, the invention of the camera made many people wonder if painting was still necessary. But instead of giving up, a group of artists turned this challenge into an opportunity.
They began to capture on canvas what a camera could not: the changing light, colours, and atmosphere of each unique moment.
The most famous of these artists was Claude Monet, often called the founder of Impressionism.
He painted outdoors, studying how sunlight and shadows changed the way trees, water, and landscapes looked throughout the day. His paintings showed not only what he saw, but also what he felt in those moments. In class, the children explored Monet’s life as a young boy and as a painter.
They then experienced Impressionism for themselves by creating beautiful willow tree artworks with oil pastels, inspired by Monet’s style. Each child expressed their own unique brushstrokes, lines, and colours, showing how light can completely transform the feeling of a picture. The results are wonderful, full of creativity and individuality. I am very excited to see how these Impressionist-inspired works will be completed in our next lesson!
