Art

Your challenge is to turn an ordinary potato in to a book character of your choice!

Design a National Book Token Competition. Use the template in the link to design a National Book Token. 

Your challenge is to turn the inside of a shoe box or cereal box into a small-world scene that celebrates a book as a whole or shows a key part of a story. 

Have a go at following the tutorial to make a basic origami bookmark shape, then go wild with your imagination to turn it into a book-inspired character. It could be a dragon, a tiger, a monster...you decide!There are some examples of different designs in the attachment. 

For art this week you will be creating a sun and moon design using cool and warm colours.

You can use whatever you have at home to colour in your design - paint, colour pencils, felt-tips or crayons.

Full instructions and some examples are included below.

We look forward to seeing your finished designs!

This week’s art activity is a Wonder-style portrait based on the front cover of the book, which was illustrated by Tad Carpenter.

This week you can learn how to make your own lunar landscape from salt dough!

With this tutorial, you can create your own magnificent piece of the moon with just three kitchen ingredients: salt, flour and water.

Darrell Wakelam is an artist famous for the sculptures he makes out of everyday objects like toilet roll tubes and paper plates.

Have a go at this amazing video tutorial with Rob Biddulph, the children's illustrator, to create your very own space alien.

Don't forget to upload your photos - we love seeing your artwork!

http://www.robbiddulph.com/draw-with-rob

Learn how to draw a rocket with these super-easy steps! Once you have drawn your rocket, you can colour it and create any background you like!