Finished works and decay in school programme 2 of Exploring through Art at Broad Oak Nature Reserve
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Finished work with natural materials. Red rose hips and straw, edged with twigs and pegged leaves.
Finished work. An assortment of different twigs, cuttings and willow bark surrounded by lightly coloured, pegged maple leaves. This is like using a variety of different coloured pencil lines.
Finished work. Leaves, twigs (some split) and stipped bark contrasting with yellow Autumn leaves. Note the intense contrast both in colour and form between the red lines of dogwood at the centre and the yellow leaves.
Finished work. Here in the triangle piece, there is a great variety of form, colour and material. Frames are both raised and on the round, one with straight sticks, the other with broken and cut sticks. We used moss, grass, reed tops, leaves, grass and rose hips.
Finished work. This piece based on squares and lines, works very well with very few types of material - sticks and leaves.

After three weeks the work has decayed, almost beyond recognition. The effect of time, nature and the elements is a theme discussed by the children. Often visiting classes look at the work of the previous groups to see what has happened to it. They are encouraged to use the materials from the old sculptre.
Here the children have used a made object in their artwork. Discussion took place about whether it should be used and what the effect was of introducing made objects into a sculpture built mainly from natural things.