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Crisis Crafts

Crafts in a Crisis – through the lockdown of 2020

Because we all need to stay focused and not panic while keeping our hands busy and hearts full.

June 22nd – Summer Solstice and eclipse

Print out the Solstice and Equinox model sheet

June 15th – Leaf Rubbings

June 8th – Colour Wheel Scavenger Hunt

12 division of the circle template to glue your decorator paint chips on

June 3rd – Tracing the path of Venus

This is the YouTube I mention in the video, it explains the science well.

June 1st – looking at leaf symmetry

a page of graph paper if you need it.

May 27th – sprouting seeds of geometry

May 25th – weaving curves

May 20th – Stitching stars and setting them free!

May 18th – what we gain from drawing the pentagon

May 15th making the kite from tetrahedrons

May 13th taking the triangle into 3D

May 11th – painting triangle flowers

May 6th – painting pentagon flowers

May 4th – making nature wands

April 27th – Stitch the star and pentagon as one

April 29th- threading stars in our flowers

April 22nd – making stars and spirals of nature

April 20th – making spirals

Download and print this sheet here, or follow video to cut your own shapes.

April 15th – looking for natural proportions with the Golden Ratio

Scroll down to April 1st to download the Pentagonal Pattern pack that will have a star to start with to make your ‘callipers’

April 13th – Collage with pressed flowers and leaves

April 8th – Paint the pine cone Spiral

April 6th – Journey of a Star

April 3rd – Origami Cranes and a story

story sheet and info, not essential for making the cranes but info and photos about the monument

April 1st – pentagonal pattern making

Download the pentagonal pattern pack to get started on making stars upon stars upon stars

March 30th 2020 – seeing the Number 5 in Nature

Sheet to practise drawing

March 24th 2020 – Shapes of the moon

Recreating the phases of the moon this is the explanation sheet and below is the FB live

March 25th – Snail shells and how they form

Below is the FB video and go to Wolfram Demo Project for the shell shaping demonstration in the image below, and link to Dr Helen Scales article below.

Link to the shell shape software program is:

https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ShellSpaceFlareVermAndSpire/

And the article from the fantastic Dr Helen Scales is well worth reading.

March 26th – Pressing flowers and leaves

March 27th – Seeing things differently

Shape hunting sheets to trace shapes from and the archetype shapes

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