We visited the Curve Garden for a one off gallery session in which our artworks are exhibited! The exhibition was called 'Wiggly worms and snazzy snails' and featured collage pieces relating to plants and mini beasts that live in the garden. We also took a...
During their visit to the Curve Garden this week, Year 1 went on a mini-beast hunt and then created blot paintings using coloured ink and kitchen paper. We spotted many mini-beasts including ladybirds, spiders, flies, aphids, ladybird larvae and snails....
We had a fantastic time at the Curve Garden. We spent time smelling, touching and looking at the beautiful flowers in the garden. We used our magnifying glass to look at the different parts of the flower. We drew and labelled our favourite flowers. We...
It was our final session at the Dalston Curve Garden this week! The children had the chance to make their own fruit smoothies and discuss all of the information they have learnt during the entire project. Furthermore, it was wonderful to see the children receive...
During our visit to the Curve Garden, we had a cross curricular Art and Science lesson. We had great fun creating clay presses and rubbings of Maple, Oak and London Plane leaves....
At the Dalston Curve Garden, Year 1 looked closely at the life cycle of plants. We planted our seeds and added the finishing touches to our Nature Journal front covers. We cannot wait to add diary entries in the future!...
As part of our Science focus on plants we have been using the skill of close observation. Whilst at the Curve Garden this week we studied leaves and noticed what was similar and different about them. There is such a great variety of shapes, sizes...
Join artist Laura Halliwell for an afternoon of free crafting, to create bright and beautiful puppets inspired by the creatures that live in Dalston Curve Garden. The activities are suitable for children aged 3+ and young children will need adult support to complete the activity. Children...
This week at the Curve Garden, we got to do some live drawing of mini beasts. We had a selection of worms, wood lice, snails and slugs to sketch....
At Dalston curve garden we learnt about seeds and seed dispersal. We made our very own flying seeds....