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Rainbow Star Kit Instructions

Kit Contents

2×8 large coloured squares
8 small coloured squares
8 small white squares
8 small gold squares
a demo small rainbow star
3 step sequence demonstrator
Note: the large squares can either be used to make large stars or be cut into quarters to make small stars (see demo small star)

Instructions

(see white small star demo)

Step 1: Fold square in half to make a diagonal fold – then open it up again

Step 2: Fold sides into centre creating a kite shape

Step 3: Repeat on all 8 colours

Step 3: Glue corners of kite, as shown, with glue stick

Fold square in half to make a diagonal fold – then open it up again

Click to access 82e60-rainbow-star-instructions-wax-kite-paper-1-1.pdf

Rainbow-star-instructions-wax-kite-paper-Download

The following sequence shows how to make a star and a star frame out of one square of any size.

For the sequence below use 8 squares in rainbow sequence or alternating gold / white sequence to make a star and glue the wide sections. Alternative if you glue the pieces on the thin section you need 16 squares repeating the rainbow sequence.

St Martin’s lantern craft making

St Martin’s day is a European festival with families walking through villages and woods in the November dark evening. It preempts Advent festivities with its emphasis on light shining in the darkness. St Martins did a lot for the poor and homeless. Perhaps we could all do more too.

To make lanterns you need the following materials:

Jam jars with the labels taken off by soaking them in hot water.
Flour and water to make a simple glue paste.
Balloons to cover with tissue paper
Tissue paper of different colours ripped into small pieces for the jars and larger pieces for the balloons.
String or raffia to put around the jam jar to make a handle or wire.
Night light candles
Box of matches.

This is a very easy activity and suitable for lots of ages. It is fun to use your hands to coat the jar or balloon with paste so you don’t necessarily need brushes just an apron or old clothes! You don’t need to make the layers more than one or two thick otherwise the light won’t shine through. When the tissue paper on the balloons is very dry you can puncture the balloon and you will have a wonderful lantern. Neaten up the edges with scissors. Make three holes in the top of the tissue shape and attach string to a stick with a knot to make a traditional hanging lantern.

Artists 91-100

Dates can be learnt more easily if they are linked to a visual image such as the ‘major’ memory system. Look back at Artists 1-10 to see how this is done. Note you have a key word like BAT which is your word hook. BAT is number 91 because an ‘B’ stands for 9 and T stands for 1. Now use your imagination to place BAT in the painting so you can link it to number 91 in your list of 100 artists. Do the same with the word BAN and so on……..

91 BAT

LEWIS

Vengeful Freaky Arms

Batty Lewis Cackles

1884

1957

92 BAN

DE LAUNAY

First of Lyrical

– Abstract Art Transitioners

1885

1941

93 BAM

GRIS

Flat Faced Gris

Painted on Cubes

1887

1927

94 BAR

CHAGALL

Fiddle Folk Culture

A Hebrew Flavoured Life

1887

1985

95 BALL

GIORGIO de CHIRICO

Famous For a Frame

Powerful Greek Freedom

1888

1978

96 BASH

NASH

“Awful Futile Bash“

Painted War Shrapnel

1889

1946

97 BAG

ERNST

Fascinating Birds Eat …

…Paint – Grotesque Angels

1891

1976

98 BIFF

SPENCER

Wife Patricia’s Tan

a Blotchy Looking Back

1891

1959

Sickert, Walter Richard; The Eldorado, Paris; The Barber Institute of Fine Arts; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-eldorado-paris-33132

99 BABY

MAGRITTE

Familiar Objects – Funny …

….Places- Just Quirky

1898

1967

100 DASIES

DALI

Painted Surreal Art

a Persistent Flying Bumblebee

1904

1989

Here are some links to great talks from the National gallery and other sources of the artists above.

Artists 81-90

Dates can be learnt more easily if they are linked to a visual image such as the ‘major’ memory system. Look back at Artists 1-10 to see how this is done. Note you have a key word like FAT which is your word hook. FAT is number 81 because an ‘F’ stands for 8 and T stands for 1. Now use your imagination to place FAT in the painting so you can link it to number 81 in your list of 100 artists. Do the same with the word FAN and so on……..

81 FAT

BONNARD

French Chique Coffee

A Bonny Red Cafe

1867

1947

82 FAN

MATISSE

Fan shaped Pinkies

dance About. Arresting Colour !

1869

1947

83 FAME

GICACOMO BALLA

A Famous Galloping Dog!

Balla: a Leading Futurist

1871

1958

84 FAIR

ROUAULT

Found Christ deep

Burned left Overs !

1871

1958

85 FALL

MONDRIAN

Falling Colours On

Broadway look Vague!

1871

1958

86 FISH

KLEE

Fishy Klee’s Bright

Birds Rhymically Sing

1879

1940

87 FAG

LEGER

Fuming Fag Tubes

Popular Leger’s Legacy

1881

1955

Georges Seurat Bathers at Asnières 1884 Oil on canvas, 201 × 300 cm Bought, Courtauld Fund, 1924 NG3908 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/NG3908

88 FIFE

PICASSO

Franco’s Forces Inspire

Picasso’s Gernica Mural

1881

1973

89 FAB

BRAQUE

Fab Fruit On …

Plate. Shock! Missing

1882

1963

90 BASE

BECKMAN

Departed For America

Brutal Life Symbols

1984

1950

Here are some links to great talks from the National gallery and other sources of the artists above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9D3us9J_b8

Purcell 3 parts

Performed and Arranged by CP Nov 2020 Lockdown 2 from Purcell Fairy Queen no.10

In the woods – wood sawing fun

Artists 71-80

Dates can be learnt more easily if they are linked to a visual image such as the major memory system. Look back at Artists 1-10 to see how this is done. Note you have a key word like CAT which is your word hook. CAT is number 71 because a hard ‘c’ stands for 7 and T stands for 1. Now use your imagination to place CAT in the painting so you can link it to number 71 in your list of 100 artists. I think of the cat strolling up the mountain . Do the same with the word CAN and so on……..

71 CAT

CEZANNE

Famous Mountain Bridge

Pass, Skilled Geometry

1839

1906

72 CAN

REDON

a Face Red Silence

Put On Show

1840

1926

73 CAMEO

MONET

Few Resources, Scrounged

Paint, No Justice

1840

1926

74 CAR

RENOIR

Very Rough Towel

Boobs Delight Parisians

1841

1919

75 GALE

GAUGUIN

Friend or Foe ?

Beach Sex Mad

1848

1903

76 CASH

Holman HUNT

Flowers Wilt Miraculously

Fiendishly Blazing Sun

1853

1890

77 CAKE

SEURAT

Forlorn Looking Bathers

Have a Paltry Time

1859

1891

78 CAFE

SICKERT

I feel Ghastly . Sick….

Parisians Run In

1870

1942

79 CAB

MUNCH

A Frightened, Shouting Man ….

Painting. … Road Rage

186

1944

80 FACE

KANDINSKY

Form Shrouded Choice

Abstract Russian Art

1866

1944

Here are some links to great talks from the National gallery and other sources of the artists above.

Autumn Harvest and Craft Scenes

Jack in a box using a conker as a head. See jack in a box post.

Artists 11- 20

STAGE 1

Dates can be learnt more easily if they are linked to a visual image such as major memory system outlined here. By assigning numbers a consonant you can create words and therefore images.

0 = s or z
1 = d or t
2 = n
3 = m
4 = r
5 = l
6 = g,j, ch soft sounds
7= g, k hard sounds
8 = f or v
9 = b or p

Vowels aren’t assigned a number they act as blanks.

So the word bat = 91, the word name = 23. It is a phonetic system so how things sound is how a number is assigned. The word cough for example is the number 78.

So how do you memorize dates? Example 1255.

The 1 can be assumed so the task is to memorize 255.

2 is and N , 5 is an L . So Duccio’s birth year 1255 can be memorized by a simple sentence using the first letter of each word.

Nearly Life Like.

STAGE 2

Each of the 100 greatest painters is hung on a key word representing the numbers 1 -100. By learning 100 words based on this system you have effectively 100 hooks to hang information on. This makes learning the hundred most important artists in Western history possible

So number 1 is day, number 2 is noah, number 3 is ma, etc. Learn the first ten numbers first then work at the dates for each painter. You will soon get the hang of it.