Art Box Workshops has created a curriculum that has dedicated a study and awareness for the past four years of threatened species of animals and plants as subject matter for our term two art classes. Our students research a variety of animals and plants, selecting threatened species to focus on fo...

Concertina Books of Threatened Species

Our teenage students had the opportunity to create a concertina book to display the threatened species that they were most concerned about, descriptions of each artwork from top to bottom.

The barrier range dragon by Lucinda
Lucinda chose The Barrier Range D...

Cool Owls of Sydney

We chose the Powerful Owl because we thought it looked cool, being so large with its massive claws and being able to catch and eat such large prey such as possums.

 

We love the fact that this giant Owl lives so close to our homes in Sydney, but unfortunately, the increase o

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Brolga Gathering on Limited Wetlands

Our younger students chose the Brolga Crane, as it is one of Australia's largest and most iconic birds. The name comes from the Aboriginal language Gamilaraay, which they are called Burralga.

Our art class was fascinated watching their courting dance, and Ab...

Turtles Need Bellinger River To Be Kept Clean

Our students fell in love with the Bellinger River snapping turtle and were sad with the thought that they could become extinct because of the Logging that is commencing on the headwaters and tributaries of three important N.S.W rivers; Kalang, Bell

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Fungus Threatens Frogs

The Corroboree Frog is found in south-eastern NSW and the ACT. It is a very tiny amphibian weighing only 3 grams and no bigger than 3 cm. Although small in size they have very unique patterns; bold yellow and black longitudinal stripes on its top, sides and legs and marbl

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Thank you to all of the students that attended the winter workshops we have full attendance and a large variety of mediums and creative experiences for our students to try out including sculpting their favourite dog painting the snowfields and an up-close representation of the fascinating geometric ...

Art box Workshops has been invited to exhibit at North Sydney councils 'In Transit' art space during the North Sydney Children's Festival in October.

This years theme is Animalia, and we have been developing workshops that represent North Sydney, showcasing animals in our local area, so far from...

Drawing and painting your favourite things

Term one art classes start with teaching our primary school students the fundamentals of drawing and painting. This year our student's learned how to draw and paint their favourite personal objects.

In the first four couple of weeks, our students experien...

Our 1st Term of expressive abstract art exploration is coming to an end. We will be celebrating this week with a picnic and armed with our sketchbooks we will sketch shapes in nature which we are drawn to, shapes that will add to our unique, individual, mark-making, a foundation for our expressive...

Happy 2019
Already children have enjoyed time at the beach or the spectacular outdoor areas around Sydney.

We create workshops that may reflect their experiences such as "Summer swimming" the student create a self-portrait of themselves swimming in the sea using techniques such as watercolour and wa...

We enjoy getting into the spirit of Christmas with an assortment of festive art workshops, whilst parents busy themselves with last-minute Christmas tasks we provide full-day workshops for your children to enjoy painting, decorating and sculpture, taking home wonderful Christmas themed hand made cre...