Visual Arts

Hocus Pocus - Halloween In Focus!

This October, the Art Room has been bursting with Halloween fun—spooky spiders, ghostly pumpkins, and skeletons shaking it all over the place! Read on to see the frightful creations, from exploding pumpkins and glittering spider webs to smoking cauldrons and neon skulls!

Foundation students celebrated Halloween by creating pumpkins exploding with lollies. Using orange paper, they cut and glued their pumpkin shapes, adding black mouths, white teeth, and eyes for personality. They finished with sequins, tissue paper, and stars to show colourful lollies bursting out. This project developed cutting, gluing, and fine motor skills, while encouraging creativity and Halloween spirit.

Year One students created Halloween spiders and webs using a mix of materials and techniques. They explored line, shape, and pattern by drawing spider webs with glue and glitter, then shaped spiders from plasticine, rolling coils for all eight legs. Students decorated their spiders with buttons and Hama beads, experimenting with colour and pattern to create unity. 

Year Two students created Halloween-inspired smoking cauldrons, painting moody watercolour backgrounds and adding spooky details such as cats, trees, and pumpkins using black pastels. Students then cut out or coloured in cauldrons and added cotton wool “smoke” for a magical finishing touch. These projects developed fine motor, painting, cutting, and composition skills while encouraging creativity and Halloween expression.

Year Three students created optical illusion pumpkins using blending techniques with oil pastels and adding contrast with black Sharpie patterns. Their designs were vibrant, with colours and shapes that really popped off the page. 

Year Four students created Halloween skull artworks inspired by contemporary artist Damien Hirst. They explored symmetry by drawing skulls using mirror imaging, then experimented with radial paint smearing to create vibrant designs. Students also used oil pastels to print a symmetrical image on the other side, adding depth and texture. 

Years Five and Six students created Neon Skull artworks using a Cartesian plane to guide their skeleton shapes and highlighted their designs with neon Posca pens to add vibrant accents and contrast. These upper-year projects developed creativity, fine motor skills, precision, spatial awareness, and an understanding of symmetry, resulting in bold and striking Halloween-inspired artworks.

Looking ahead to November!

As we roll into the next few weeks, students will be experimenting with paint, ink, gelli plates, brayers, and stencils to create bold and colourful prints. Our Year Six artists are taking things up a notch with their Skateboard Legacy Project—turning their creative designs into board art that’s uniquely their own, capturing what primary school has meant to them.

We are looking forward to our favourite time of year, Christmas and all the fun festive projects that will be happening!

Beth Tyrrell and Hayley Rings