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27/10/2025
- 29/10/2025

Autumn Half-Term: Sculpture and the Body

Sculpture Short-Course for Children aged 6 – 12

Warwick Preparatory School, Banbury Road, Warwick, CV34 6PL

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October Half-Term: Sculpture and the Body
27th – 29th October 2025
Book for 1, 2 or 3 days
Price £45 per day
10 am – 4 pm

10% discount for 3-day bookings
10% sibling discount
Three-day course 10 am – 4 pm = £135
Option for additional wraparound care at additional charge 9 – 10 am and 4 – 5 pm @ £7.50 per hour.

In Sculpture and the Body, we delve into exploring materials in relation to the body, working with scale, shape, form, texture and volume to transform the body’s appearance and how we interact/perform. Activities included one-minute sculptures (designed to be humorous and playful), finding ways to connect our made sculptures to our body (such as making a sculpture for your hands/fingers), and exploring the use of contrasting textures and how they feel when met with the body.

Our workshops days are broken up with different creative play and exploratory activities. The children are free to choose from larger collaborative making and small independent activities. We have curated books and short-films to enrich their understanding of how sculpture and art relates to their world, for moments in the afternoon when energy wanes.

Additional needs:

We are happy to accept children with additional needs. However it is essential that you get in touch with us in advance to discuss them so we can ensure a safe, productive and creative experience for all, given our staffing capacity. Failure to do this may mean we are unable to accept your child on the day. We will likely advise a trial half-day to start with.

“Kids are under such pressure these days. Everything in life for us and for them feels increasingly measured, judged, target driven, goal oriented, etc etc… Your workshop, so carefully and thoughtfully delivered, carved out space for children just to “be” and to explore their own creativity in a safe and supportive environment. Yes please… more of this, and maybe for adults as well as children too!” Paul Gilligan, grandparent

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Painting your body using materials was an alternative way to create a temporary sculpture using coloured fabric and the body. This activity required the children to work in pairs, one in a chosen position on the floor and the other handling the materials to place over the bodies form.

When hands appear and shapes are added an abstract form of the body appears.

''Make something that feels soft to sit on'' was a prompt taken from our tray. The response led to discussion between two children who collaborated together to find all things soft to attach to a stool. Using their sense of touch they took turns to sit on the stool to test out each stage of their making, adding extra sponges until both were telling their art educator ''this is the softest seat you will ever sit on". This activity provoked ideas of comfortability in relation to the body, using different forms, materials and colour.

Exposing the children to hostile architecture we thought of different ways to make a bench a challenge to sit on. The children wrapped tubes around the bench and then used their bodies to weave and tangle themselves into their sculpture, making uncomfortable positions and restricting their access to sitting down.

Working in collaboration, two children thought of imaginative ways to change the shape of their body. They made a wearable sculpture that attached to both of their bodies, restricting individual movement but encouraging closeness.

Thinking of how colours and shapes represent our feelings, sculptures were created to wear as "feeling bags". The idea of a feeling bag was created by one of our students, with the idea of it being invisible to others but when each object is taken out we project those feelings onto other people. This activity led to a discussion about how these feelings make our body move and feel. We took out each object and performed what this might look like externally.

Inspired by Erwin Wurm's 'One Minute Sculptures' we set the egg timer, positioning our bodies in perculiar ways in response to the props and materials. The resulting compositions feature unusual contortions and illogical still-lives.

Altering what we feel and see when we move through a space. All of the children worked in collaboration to wrap each element of the climbing frame, transforming the structure into an oasis of sheer blue when you entered.

This was named ''a floating blue monster'', a wearable construction that was performative in the outdoor space.

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