Creative Schools with Tuam Educate Together National School

Self-made mark-making tools from found objects

Using view finders and simple house-hold objects such as rolling pins to create a moving scroll allows pupils to really look at the marks they have created to identify exciting patterns.

Go big or go home! 

Mops, sweeping brushes, buckets of paint. 

Creativity can sometimes be a messy process but thinking on a larger scale allows us to make grand gestures that create a lasting impression.

Manipulating the surface of our flat paper drawings creates new patterns and textures that might inspire new ideas.