• Goal Setting
• Problem Solving
• Yes I Did It!
• Express An Idea - Collage
• Four of a Kind - Collage
• Collaging video
• Paint a Simple Landscape
• How to Paint a Simple Landscape Video
• Tabletop Landscapes - Photography
  • All you need to know about this activity
  • Steps 1 and 2
  • Step 3: Making a backdrop for your landscape
  • Step 5: Choosing your objects first
  • Photography hints
  • What next?

Step 1: Choose your landscape

• What sort of landscape would you like to create? 
  You may want to find inspiration from paintings or photography or create something completely new from your imagination. 
• What words would you use to describe your imagined landscape?

• Look at some examples of the sort of landscape you would like to make by putting the description of your landscape into a search engine such as Google

 

For example, 'Green rolling hills,'

 

 

 

Step 2: Gather your materials

• What are the individual elements that make up this landscape?
• Looking at your source materials write down a list of the features (things) that define this sort of landscape for you

 

For example;

 

Landscape Feature:

Hills
Farm animals
Hedges
Stones
Trees
Blue Sky
Clouds
Flowers
Fences

 

• Next to each feature write down things that you could use to represent these in your model landscape

 

For example;

 

Hills - Green fabric, tissue paper, moss
Farm animals - Toy models, pictures
Hedges - Washing up scourers and sponges
Stones - Small stones, cat litter
Trees - Small plants or weeds, artificial plants, green garden wire
Blue sky - Blue fabric, tissue
Clouds - Cotton wool
Flowers - Coloured paper, pictures, small flowers
Fences - Sticks, bits of wood

 

Note:

Sometimes you won't know what will do the job until you see it!

 

Example: How household items have been used

 

 

Tip:

Now is the time to have a good rummage at the bottom of that set of drawers, cupboard or anywhere else you’ve been dumping those things that you know will come in useful one day!