10 New School Window Hangings

Since May 2012, I have been working with over 500 school children from Nursery age to Year 6. The project was for the children to design and create 10 hangings to be hung in their large dinning hall windows, illustrating the school's values. The hangings each needed to be 2 metres by 80 centimetres and to almost create a 'stained glass window' effect when the sun shined.

Every year group was allocated a value and came up with a design for it. These were then draw onto the cotton fabric in the style of the children's designs, then every child from that year group would spend sometime painting on their hanging. The fabric paint we used was COLOURTEX by Specialist Crafts. I have been using this paint for a long time and find it very adaptable. In this case it could be watered down to the right level, so that when light reaches it, the colour almost glows on the right weight cotton.

The 10 hangings are now complete and will be ready to hang in the school dinning hall this week. Which I hope the school and the children love!

 

This is a detail from the hanging painted by the 63 children in the school nursery. Their school value was about Diversity, so they each painted a butterfly, different in shape and colour. The raven appears on all of the hangings, as it is part of the school insignia and a fun image for the children to find on the hangings whilst eating their school dinners.