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Victoria's Marine National Parks & Sanctuaries
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Written by Karen McGlynn
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The Barwon Heads Bluff is a magical site to use
as a discovery activities art tool for learning.
The following activities focus on the coastal marine habitat that provides a vast array of amazing images that can be explored creatively. They can be developed and used for whole class, small special interest groups or individuals and across the curriculum.
Many concepts for creative art ideas can be explored and developed around the elements of design that are found in nature. These are Line, Color, Pattern, Texture, Form and Space. |
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| Creating, Making, Presenting | |||
| Here is an array of activities that can be used across the Curriculum: | |||
| Produce paintings or a mural based on the safety and the protection of the creatures of the Barwon Heads Bluff. Form and color. | |||
| Create models out of paper mache using small balloons blown up and used as the body shape of the fish. Then paint with the focus on the element pattern emphasing the fish scales using the colors of the sea. Add the tail and eyes using colored paper etc. | |||
| Make Clay creatures such as sea anemones, sea stars, and a fish. With the emphasis on the texture and pattern that can be produced using natures tools that are found on the beach. | |||
| Create masks based on sea creatures using scrap materials that can be used in a performance. The element explored will be shape and texture. | |||
| Draw illustrations of the under water creatures that can be scanned onto the computer and used to produce post cards emphasizing the importance of protecting the Bluff ecosystem. The element of design is line. Use crosshatching and thick and thin line drawing technique. | |||
| Using a small box create an imaginative Diorama depicting life under the sea - with the emphasis on the variety of shapes and colors under the water. | |||