Art Zone

Here are some links that you might find useful.

Local Manchester arts events

• Check out Manchester arts gallery for families
• Look at Art for Children in the Whitworth Gallery
• Investigate arts and crafts activities for Manchester families

Virtual Gallery tours and artists

• National gallery tour
• Van Gogh museum, The Netherlands
• All you need to know about famous artists and art history

Online art ideas and games

• Learn to draw
• Explore the artist's toolkit
• Online painting game
• A huge range of activities from The Tate to keep you occupied
• This website has hundreds of activities to choose from
• Jumpstart has lots of arts and crafts activities to try out
• Explore different art techniques with Crayola

At Highfield all of the children have been very busy in their art lessons. Here are some pictures showing just some of these activities, from Jackson Pollock inspired splatter pictures, to learning how to use watercolours, to exploring how to paint without using conventional brushes to recreating their own versions of David Zinn's chalk street art.