Our #WVVirtualSquad : February Half Term in Wolverhampton

We were delighted to get funding support from the City of Wolverhampton to provide online art and craft activities for young people aged 10-16 as part of their February Half Term #WVVirtualSquad offer. 

We did a wide variety of accessible activities that saw them creating 3D cardboard sculpture, air dry clay modelling, origami paper crafts, drawings, paintings, T-shirt designs, and pop art landscapes among many other creative things. 

Newspaper mosaics

There were sessions every day of the holidays and we provided 3 extra sessions in the evenings for 13-16 year olds, who learnt about more advanced art techniques. Art packs were made up and delivered to families in the week before the live sessions. These included all the resources required to do the projects together with a step by step workbook about each art challenge for those who weren’t able to join all the live sessions.

Photo Gallery of work created

​They also learnt some British Sign Language with Gary along the way!

We worked with local crafter Sarah's Sparkly Crafts who showed us all how to make pop-up box cards

Alex Vann from RAW said: “We had a really great time leading this project and hope to do similar sessions in future as we consider the Arts to be beneficial in many ways and especially during times of lockdown”.

What the Young People said:

MONDAY 15th Feb
“It was really good and we enjoyed doing something new,
Thanks.”
“Today’s lesson was very fun and helped me to design a colourful logo. Thx”
“Today’s session was really fun I can’t wait to wear it when it is ready” (T shirt)
“I really enjoyed today, thankyou :)”
 
TUESDAY 16th Feb
“It was very fun”
“I FOUND IT DIFFICULT BUT I LOVED IT”
“I learnt how to make things that I never thought I would be able to do”
“I really enjoyed making creative stuff with clay. I can’t wait to do more”
“I really enjoyed making the rose and plaque.”
 
WEDNESDAY 17th Feb
“I enjoyed learning sign language”
“It was really fun to learn BSL”
"I really enjoyed drawing Iron Man"
"I really enjoyed today's lesson. Thank you"
"It was very good and I really liked doing it with everybody"
"Today was very fun because we did pop art on canvases!!!!!!"
 
THURSDAY 18th Feb
“I HAD GREAT FUN”
“I learnt how to make different types of cards. It was very fun.”
“Today was fantastic I really enjoyed it all !”
“IT WAS SO COOL I MADE A NEW FRIEND”
“I really enjoyed drawing everything”
“It was amazing”
 
FRIDAY 19th Feb
“It was amazing I learnt how to create an abstract canvas YAYYYYYYYYYYY”
“I loved today's session. It was very fun”
“I love These sessions ”
“Amazing”
"Doing the jar was AMAZING it was so fun and fantastic "
"I loved it"
“I liked doing this and it was very enjoyable and I really liked doing this throughout the week”
“Alex, Gary and Sarah are the best”
“I love RAW. It is fantastic cant wait until next time”
“Hopefully we meet again soon woppeeeeeee! ”
“So amazing”
“It was fun and I liked it”
“ALEX AND GARY ARE AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!! Their sessions are awesome”