Jim Morris - artworker
0121 778 5695
projects 2013
BRUM BAGS
Drawings on brown paper takeaway bags
as part of Birmingham Urban Sketchers’ Sketchcrawl
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MATHEMAGICIANS
Nursery pupils create patterns with shape-stencils and metallic crayons...
Reception pupils make tissue paper symmetrical snowflakes...
Year One pupils turn paper cups into double snowflake decorations...
Year Two pupils ‘grow’ snowflake patterns using their own geometric templates...
Pupils and parents/carers working together in INSPIRE workshops
Princethorpe Infants & Nursery
“ maths/geometric shapes in the world around us ”
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ONCE UPON A _______ TIME...
❝ Absolutely amazing! ❞ - Year 2 Teacher
Year 2 pupils create their own large-scale Comic Strip stories:
Time setting - location - characters - storyboards - finished artwork · cover
4 days at Sladefield Infant School
“ traditional tales with a creative twist”
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PITTA PUPPET PIRATES
LOTS of youngsters make their own Pitta Puppet Pirates
using recycled card and tactile materials
The New Library of Birmingham
as part of Pirates Onboard Inclusive Family Fun Day
for how to make the Pitta Puppets
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BEDFORD MONSTER-MAKERS
Youngsters turn themselves into monsters using recycled card
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Wooton Library, Bedfordshire & Central Library, Bedford
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VICTORIA BY THE SEA
❝ It has been a fantastic project and the end result is very pleasing. Jim has been great to work with. ❞
Sandra Kallitsakis - Director of Arts
Tactile, seaside-themed ‘cut-outs’ mural in ‘The Beach’ play area
Victoria Special School & Specialist Arts College
‘Cut-outs’ painted by pupils and students
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B28 BUTTERFLIES
Families brave the rain to make Butterfly Puppets by the River Cole
(part of ‘We Art B28’ - Hall Green Arts Festival)
with Ranger Jan Tomlinson
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ALL ABOUT US @ Heath Mount
New Reception pupils make ‘Happy/Sad’ and ‘Child/Adult’ puppets
from coloured envelopes
as part of their All About Me topic
Heath Mount Primary School
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DRAWING LOTS
Adults’ Drawing Workshop Day
20 participants ‘meet’ a host of artists - and take on challenges inspired by them
Walsall Leather Museum
❝ Really enjoyed today’s adult drawing session. Very inspirational. ❞
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CREEPY HOUSE GUESTS
Youngsters turn coloured tights into creepy puppet characters
(linked with the Creepy House reading challenge)
Kings Norton Library
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JUST LIKE ALICE - A CURIOUS INVITATION
Young visitors and their families
turn hundreds of envelopes into
puppet characters
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
(linked with the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ exhibition)
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PUPPET FISH at SUMMER SCHOOL
Staff and pupils make Fish Puppets from
paper cups and paper bags
Victoria Special School and Specialist Arts College - Summer School
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WOMAD sketches 2013
‘Live’ sketches from the Womad Festival
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July in B28 sketch
The ‘meadow’ at Trittiford Mill Pool
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CYLINDER HEADS & PITTA PIRATES
Year 2 pupils turn recycled card into
‘Cylinder Head’ and ‘Pitta Pirate’ puppets
Ward End Primary School
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TOTALLY TROPICAL PUPPET-MAKING
Young visitors to the Puppet Tent at the Wolverhampton Show
make their own Fish Puppets
2 days with The British Puppet & Model Theatre Guild
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UNDERSEA PUPPETS at WARD END
Year 1 pupils turn paper cups and paper bags into fish puppets
Ward End Primary School
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FISH & JELLYFISH PUPPETS
Year 1 pupils turn paper cups, paper bags and recycled plastic
into fish, jellyfish and bird puppets
Ward End Primary School
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PUPPET-MAKING DAY at WARD END
Year 1 pupils turn paper cups and paper bags into fish puppets:
Year 2 pupils turn paper cups and recycled card into talkative puppet characters:
Ward End Primary School
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A.B.C. Creatures at ART CLUB
Key Stage 1 pupils turn the letters of their name into new creatures
Sladefield Infants - Art Club
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PUPPETS PLUS... RECYCLING
Mixed groups of Year 4, 5 & 6 pupils turn drinks cartons into dragons...
and patterned tights into talking puppet characters...
Eastern Green Junior School, Coventry
- part of the School’s Science and Eco Week
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(FELT) PITTA PUPPETS at ART CLUB
Key Stage 1 pupils turn Poundland ‘felt’ dusters into puppet-creatures
Sladefield Infants - Art Club
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(CARD) PITTA PUPPETS at ART CLUB
Key Stage 1 pupils turn recycled card pitta-shapes into puppet-creatures
Sladefield Infants - Art Club
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Knights, Dragons and BFGs
Reception pupils make ‘Sir Dance-alot’ Puppets...
Year 1 pupils make ‘Dragon’ Puppets...
Year 2 & 3 pupils make ‘BFG’ Puppets...
A day of topic-based puppet-making
Haynes Lower School - Bedfordshire
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TOTALLY TROPICAL
Key Stage 1 pupils turn paper bags into tropical fish and wild animal puppets
Sladefield Infants - Art Club
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PUZZLE PICTURE PEOPLE
Key Stage 1 pupils create new characters using
the Puzzle Picture People pieces
Sladefield Infants - Art Club
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May in B28 sketch
May Magnolia in Wycome Road
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SPUD PUPPETS
Key Stage 1 pupils turn potatoes into puppet characters
Sladefield Infants - Art Club
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INTO AFRICA
4 Reception classes explore some of the sights, sounds and smells of Africa
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make African Animal puppets from paper bags
2 days at Ward End Primary
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“FANTASTIC STICK PICTURES”
Key Stage 1 pupils create “fantastic stick pictures”
using coloured ice-lolly sticks
Sladefield Infants - Art Club
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PUPPET DRAGONS from MIDDLE EARTH
❝ The kids loved making these! Planning to make more at half term! ❞
Young Earthlings and their families make Guarding Dragon Puppets
from recycled card
Middle Earth Weekend - Sarehole Mill
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JIM’S GEOMETRIC JUNGLE
Key Stage 1 pupils create jungle creatures using
recycled card cuboids, cylinders and prisms
Sladefield Infants - Art Club
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DESIGN-A-DINOSAUR
Key Stage 1 pupils ‘hatch’ their own dinosaurs from egg-shapes
Sladefield Infants - Art Club
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LIKE L.S.LOWRY...
Inspired by L.S.Lowry,
Key Stage 1 Pupils draw and paint their neighbourhood on recycled envelopes
Sladefield Infant School
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April in B28 sketch
Spring sunshine at Sarehole Mill
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LIBRARIES & ARTS... & FISH
Librarians meet Artists - and Fish Puppets
Libraries and Arts Seminar Day
@Wolverhampton Art Gallery
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ARTFINDER
‘Concarneau’ drawing sold on Artfinder
to visit the Artfinder website
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PUPPETS at the OPPS FAIR
Lots of visitors make their own Paper Plate Parrot Puppets
at the Opportunities Fair - Edgbaston Stadium
“ Working together towards inclusive communities”
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SAREHOLE MILL CARDS
Sarehole Mill in the Snow - greetings cards printed
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BICYCLE BASKET BAZAAR
Dan Burwood takes - and develops - an ‘instant-ish’ photo of yours truly
Jim’s gardenartwork cards for sale at the Bicycle Basket Bazaar
(part of the Flatpack Festival)
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March in B28 sketch
Sarehole Mill
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WARD END DINOSAURS
Year 3 classes make their own Dinosaur Puppets from recycled card
Ward End Primary School
How to make the DINOSAUR PUPPETS:
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EXPLORING PERSPECTIVE
with Oliver Twist
Four Year 2 classes explore perspective drawing
2 days at Sladefield Infant School
(inspired by the film Oliver!)
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February in B28 sketch
Friends Meeting House
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IOTW
‘Burnham Overy Staithe’ drawing chosen as Image of the Week
@ www.theprintersinc.co.uk
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PITTA PUPPETS at Bedford Libraries
Young Library visitors make their own Pitta Puppet Animals
Bromham Library & Bedford City Library
❝ Thank you for the brilliant puppet-making sessions – we have had some great feedback from children and parents. ❞
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CREATIVE CREATURES
Inspired by ancient myths and legends,
Year Two classes make guarding dragon puppets from recycled card:
Inspired by The Rainbow Fish,
Year One classes make puppet fish from envelopes...
and from paper bags:
Inspired by The Gruffalo,
Reception classes make multi-coloured mice puppets:
Alumwell Infant School
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(SPACE)WALKING with WALL-E
Inspired by the Wall-E film,
Year One classes explore Outer Space -
making Space Walker puppets from takeaway lids:
...and spacecraft and rockets from paper party cups:
4 days at Sladefield Infant School
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FAR FAR AWAY
Year 2 Classes make Envelope People Puppets...
...and Envelope Animal Puppets
Pye Green Valley Primary School
(linked with their Traditional Stories topic)
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January in B28 sketch
almshouses in the snow
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Winter Morning View
drawing in Wirksworth - Derbyshire
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Got an idea/request for a project?
e-mail: jim@artgames.co.uk
to make it happen
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e-mail: jim@artgames.co.uk
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