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We made sewn woodland creatures and simple fireworks drawings using bright waxes and glitter on black paper.  Then in the run up to Halloween we created flapping fuzzy bats.  For the second session we printed some pretty autumnal leaves which will go towards making place mats.  

It was a beautifully hot day, so we worked outside shaded under a tree, making horse and rider thaumatropes linking in with the Paralympics and built mini robots with walking mechanisms, that when decorated we raced them against each other, here are a couple of finished examples (the blue one was the overall winner).

I thought I would try the sunset workshop with this holiday group, but instead of using the acetone transfer technique we drew our images through carbon paper, then layered washes of water colour over the top for definition and texture. Here are a few choice examples from the large group.

In the morning the group had been working on circus performances, so I continued by running a workshop making circus thaumatropes and vintage decoupage pictures with balancing performing animals.  

We painted and glazed our decorative clay pebbles with beautiful results.   Then with the theme of summer everyone created watercolour sunsets, layering tropical images of flamingos, palm trees and hibiscus flowers using an acetone transfer technique.