Art Day 2022

Art Day was back with a bang this year! It was wonderful to be able to hold our usual Art Day in all it’s splendour & magnificence, thanks to our fantastic Parent Art Committee, as well as all our wonderful parental volunteers who enthusiastically came on board!

We had a wide array of fabulous stations including:

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Clay Modelling

Claymation

Comic Book

Glass Painting

Music Room

Hand Puppets

Jewellery

Marbling

String Painting

Paper Craft

Origami

Felting

Upcycling Clothes

Bag & T-shirt design

Tie-Dye

Slime Factory

Bath Bombs

Screen Printing

Nature Station

Face Painting

Augmented Reality

Dance

Monster Doodles

Stained Glass Windows

Interior Design Mood Boards

Lego

Spray Painting

Wool Pom Poms

Batik

We were so delighted this year to have music in the log cabin where each infant class had the opportunity to to meet the wonderful musicians, Ciara & Ger, learn about the instruments, the violin & the guitar, and sing along to some songs which they all loved! The rest of the pupils could pop in and out when they wished and had the opportunity to play the instruments too!

This year, each class worked on a whole school project, which was a stained glass effect piece of art for the library.

Sixth class students collaborated to create the wonderful design, which was transferred on to Perspex and on Art Day, pupils from the whole school coloured it in! 🎨

We were delighted to have a dance class this year too with super talented parents Sarah & Saoirse!

Below you’ll find a little taster of some of the other amazing things happening throughout the day. The imagination & creativity was truly inspiring and it was an incredibly memorable day for everyone. This year’s art day was particularly special after the craziness of the last two years. It is a testament to the hardworking and dedicated team of parents that the day was such a spectacular success and we are so grateful to everybody involved!

Art Day 2021

Everyone really enjoyed all of the activities and stations on this year’s Art Day. Children loved spending the whole day being creative and having fun immersed in arts and crafts & film making projects. A HUGE thank you to the incredible parents on the Art Committee & STEAM Committee who helped make this year’s reimagined Art Day as wonderful as ever!

Take a look at the slide show of pictures for each class below to see what they got up to!

ALC Green worked on cartooning, t-shirt design, collage and making slime. ALC Blue enjoyed clay modelling, sketching and drawing, paper crafts and drawing with Chris Judd. Sylvia’s class also worked together to make a Stop Motion film!

Senior Infants: Aisling’s Class made sock puppets, nature bookmarks, collages and they also enjoyed drawing activities. Danielle’s Class worked on sock puppets, slime, clay modelling and sketching.

Second Class: Rebecca’s Class made sock puppets, junk art, pom poms and designed t-shirts. Pádraig’s Class worked on t-shirt design, slime, clay modelling and dream catchers.

Fourth Class worked on origami, claymation (Stop Motion animation) cartooning with Chris Judge and clay modelling.

Fifth Class worked on an incredible film making project for Art Day. With the support of their teacher and under the guidance of a very helpful and knowledgeable parent & film-maker, Killian Waters, pupils worked on their own reproduction of the film Shrek. This entailed groups creating a set, designing costumes, and recording their own scene from the movie. The class are spending a few days working on this exciting project. On completion, Killian will edit their recordings resulting in the class having their own reproduction of their imagined version of Shrek!

Junior Infant Classes spent the day doing marbling, making clay creations, collages and imaginative shape art.

First Class: Daniel’s Class worked on sock puppets, t-shirt design, papercrafts and making slime. Dee’s Class spent the day making slime, designing t-shirts, sock puppets and clay creations.