Jumble House Art, painting, Printmaking, Modelling for young children, Crafts for kids, Creativity, Sculpture, Sunday Challenge

Polystyrene Models

​​SUNDAY CHALLENGE 

This Sunday Challenge introduces children to polystyrene and suggests ways to make models.  It is ​a great project for children from six upwards with adult supervision. 

Polystyrene is fun to work with and building sculptures like this one teaches children to appreciation the importance of light and shadow and movement. 

The inspiration for the featured image came from an amazing sculpture by artist Danilo Fiorucci entitled : LO SPAZIO ASSENTE . ( The ascending space). 

To view this sculpture and the Jumbles experimenting with polystyrene watch the video below: 

The Sunday Challenge

Jumble House Challenges, Creativity, Flying

Flying Machines 

Part one of the Sunday Challenge programmes on flying machines.

Did you know that the first plane with an engine was a biplane ? 

Bi Planes are planes with two wings, one over the other.  They have very good uplift but the ‘drag’ is much greater than with the more  modern planes so they are much slower.  The very first plane with an engine was a BiPlane. 

Freddie Jumble is very interested in planes and so is Judi. Her father was in the airforce and later in the Royal Observer Corps. 


As a child she learnt how to recognise lots of aeroplanes and later Judi learnt how to fly gliders. ( planes without engines) . 

Here she is at the controls. 


Watch the video to see how to make your very own model : Flying Machines. Bi Planes

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Jumble House Challenges, crafts, Creativity

What are you making?

How are you getting on with the last Sunday Challenge?

The challenge was to make something using just some plastic cups, balloons, pipe cleaners and straws.

You can use glue to stick things together and a pair of scissors but remember you must ask an adult first.

 

Let's see what the Jumbles are making.

TuTu is going to make a person. She's using one balloon for the head.

I wonder what she will use for the body, arms and legs.

What do you think?

Alfie wants to make a hot-air balloon He has blown a balloon up inside the cup. But he's not sure what to do next.
What would you do?

Georgie hasn't decided what to make. She is trying out different arrangements of plastic cups.

What do you think she could make with the cups in a tower like this?

 

Come back next Sunday to see what the Jumbles have made and for a new challenge.

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