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Mother's Day

Make Mum feel extra special this Mother’s Day with a thoughtful handmade gift. Our craft ideas are sure to brighten Mum’s day and our step by step activities make it really easy to get crafty this Mother's day.

Pocket Mirror BLMs - Mother's Day

Mirror mirror in my hand, who’s the best Mum in all the land?!
These handy BLMs are the perfect way to personalise your pocket mirror this Mother’s Day! Decorate our designs or create your own on our blank templates.
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Stage
Syllabus Links
Early Stage 1
CAE-VIS-01 - Visual Arts Outcome: Experiments with and identifies ways materials and techniques are used to represent subject matter and ideas in artworks
Content: Experiment with primary colours and ways to make secondary colours. Explore painting and printmaking materials and techniques, experimenting with tools to create effects.
Lesson Link: Students experiment with colour and materials to decorate their mirror templates, representing a personalised design for their Mum.
CAE-VIS-02 - Visual Arts Outcome: Experiments with and identifies ways materials and techniques are used to represent subject matter and ideas in artworks
Content: Experiment with primary colours and ways to make secondary colours. Explore painting and printmaking materials and techniques, experimenting with tools to create effects.
Lesson Link: Students experiment with colour and materials to decorate their mirror templates, representing a personalised design for their Mum.
Stage 1
CA1-VIS-01 - Visual Arts Outcome: Makes artworks using materials and techniques to represent subject matter and ideas, and describes ways artists convey ideas in artworks
Content: Use drawing materials and techniques to explore how types of lines, shapes and patterns can represent subject matter or ideas.
Lesson Link: Students use lines, shapes and patterns in their flat template design to symbolise love or appreciation for their Mum.
Stage 2
CA2-VIS-01 - Visual Arts Outcome: Makes artworks using art forms to represent subject matter and ideas, and describes ways artists convey ideas about their world to audiences through artworks
Content: Explore balance, scale and proportion in compositions to represent subject matter and ideas.
Lesson Link: Students design a balanced and well-composed flat artwork to communicate affection and appreciation for their Mum.
Stage 3
CA3-VIS-01 - Visual Arts Outcome: makes artworks in intentional ways to represent ideas about their world, and explains ways artists are influenced by contexts and how artworks are interpreted by audiences
Content: Apply understandings of materials, techniques and processes to represent intended ideas in artworks.
Lesson Link: Older students intentionally select materials and visual techniques to express meaning in their personalised mirror artwork.
Levels
Syllabus Links
Foundation
VC2AVAFC01 – Visual Arts (Creating) Outcome: Create artworks that communicate experiences, ideas and observations and explore meaning.
Content: Creating artworks in response to inspiration from sources such as play, imagination, observation, literature, artworks from their cultures and communities or arts knowledge and skill development activities.
Lesson Link: Students use imagination and observation to design and decorate their mirror, communicating love and appreciation for their mum through colour, shape, and pattern choices.
Levels 1 and 2
VC2AVA2C01 – Visual Arts (Creating) Outcome: Use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that communicate ideas, experiences and observations.
Content: Using viewpoints and brainstorming to develop ideas for artworks as they experiment with visual conventions, subject matter and materials.
Lesson Link: Students plan and decorate their mirrors using visual conventions (pattern, colour, line) to express their ideas about family and care, combining materials creatively.
Levels 3 and 4
VC2AVA4C01 – Visual Arts (Creating) Outcome: Use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and meaning.
Content: Using viewpoints to develop questions as they experiment with visual conventions, subject matter and materials to communicate meaning, such as “What happens if I make the subject fill the frame?” and “Can I change the meaning of my work by using darker or lighter tones?”
Lesson Link: Students make design choices about symbols, colour, and composition to communicate their perspective of admiration and love for their mother through their mirror artwork.
Levels 5 and 6
VC2AVA6C01 – Visual Arts (Creating) Outcome: Select, manipulate and refine visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to communicate ideas, perspectives and meaning in their artworks.
Content: Refining ideas for artworks based on feedback and reflection; selecting and combining materials, techniques and processes to communicate meaning; evaluating how their own and others’ use of visual conventions and visual arts processes can convey meaning.
Lesson Link: Students independently design and refine their mirror artworks, considering how materials and techniques (paint, collage, embellishment) can best express emotion, personality, and symbolic meaning related to family and identity.
Stage
Syllabus Links
Early Stage 1
CAE-VIS-01 Outcome: Experiments with and identifies ways materials and techniques are used to represent subject matter and ideas in artworks.
Content: Experiment with primary colours and ways to make secondary colours.
Lesson Link: Students decorate their mirror insert, experimenting with colour choices to create a vibrant and expressive gift design.
Stage 1
CA1-VIS-01 Outcome: Makes artworks using materials and techniques to represent subject matter and ideas, and describes ways artists convey ideas in artworks.
Content: Experiment with painting and printmaking materials and techniques, including ways to layer colours and create textural effects.
Lesson Link: Students colour or paint their flat template, experimenting with layering and surface decoration to represent affection and creativity.
Stage 2
CA2-VIS-01 Outcome: Makes artworks using art forms to represent subject matter and ideas, and describes ways artists convey ideas about their world to audiences through artworks.
Content: Experiment with the qualities of paint and painting processes using tools to blend colours and create surface effects.
Lesson Link: Students explore colour blending and smooth brushwork to create meaningful flat artworks that communicate appreciation for others.
Stage 3
CA3-VIS-01 Outcome: Makes artworks in intentional ways to represent ideas about their world, and explains ways artists are influenced by contexts and how artworks are interpreted by audiences.
Content: Create intentional effects with awareness of the relationships between colours and tones, to represent subject matter or ideas in realistic, imaginative or symbolic ways.
Lesson Link: Students design their mirror artwork with deliberate colour and tone choices to symbolise care, gratitude and creative expression.
Stage
Syllabus Links
Early Stage 1
CAE-VIS-01 Outcome: Experiments with and identifies ways materials and techniques are used to represent subject matter and ideas in artworks.
Content: Experiment with primary colours and ways to make secondary colours.
Stage 1
CA1-VIS-01 Outcome: Makes artworks using materials and techniques to represent subject matter and ideas, and describes ways artists convey ideas in artworks.
Content: Experiment with painting and printmaking materials and techniques, including ways to layer colours and create textural effects.
Lesson Link: Students colour or paint their flat template, experimenting with layering and surface decoration to represent affection and creativity.
Stage 2
CA2-VIS-01 Outcome: Makes artworks using art forms to represent subject matter and ideas, and describes ways artists convey ideas about their world to audiences through artworks.
Content: Experiment with the qualities of paint and painting processes using tools to blend colours and create surface effects.
Lesson Link: Students explore colour blending and smooth brushwork to create meaningful flat artworks that communicate appreciation for others.
Stage 3
CA3-VIS-01 Outcome: Makes artworks in intentional ways to represent ideas about their world, and explains ways artists are influenced by contexts and how artworks are interpreted by audiences.
Content: Create intentional effects with awareness of the relationships between colours and tones, to represent subject matter or ideas in realistic, imaginative or symbolic ways.
Lesson Link: Students design their mirror artwork with deliberate colour and tone choices to symbolise care, gratitude and creative expression.
Stage
Syllabus Links
Early Stage 1
CAE-VIS-01 Outcome: Experiments with and identifies ways materials and techniques are used to represent subject matter and ideas in artworks.
Content: Experiment with primary colours and ways to make secondary colours.
Lesson Link: Students decorate their mirror insert, experimenting with colour choices to create a vibrant and expressive gift design.
Stage 1
CA1-VIS-01 Outcome: Makes artworks using materials and techniques to represent subject matter and ideas, and describes ways artists convey ideas in artworks.
Content: Experiment with painting and printmaking materials and techniques, including ways to layer colours and create textural effects.
Lesson Link: Students colour or paint their flat template, experimenting with layering and surface decoration to represent affection and creativity.
Stage 2
CA2-VIS-01 Outcome: Makes artworks using art forms to represent subject matter and ideas, and describes ways artists convey ideas about their world to audiences through artworks.
Content: Experiment with the qualities of paint and painting processes using tools to blend colours and create surface effects.
Lesson Link: Students explore colour blending and smooth brushwork to create meaningful flat artworks that communicate appreciation for others.
Stage 3
CA3-VIS-01 Outcome: Makes artworks in intentional ways to represent ideas about their world, and explains ways artists are influenced by contexts and how artworks are interpreted by audiences.
Content: Create intentional effects with awareness of the relationships between colours and tones, to represent subject matter or ideas in realistic, imaginative or symbolic ways.
Lesson Link: Students design their mirror artwork with deliberate colour and tone choices to symbolise care, gratitude and creative expression.
  • Step 1Download and print out the template provided onto cover paper. This will provide a great surface for decorating.
  • Step 2Decorate your template using pencils, markers or paint. You could even add glitter to your design for a touch of sparkle! Allow to dry if needed.
  • Step 3Cut out your template. Adult supervision is recommended when using scissors. Apply a thin coat of PVA glue to the flat side of the pocket mirror glass and stick the template onto the back (decorated side up to reveal the design). Allow to dry.
  • Step 4Apply glue to the inset of the pocket mirror and glue the glass piece and template in place. Allow to dry.
  • Step 5Your beautiful personalised pocket mirror is now ready to gift to your Mum!

Design Your Own Pocket Mirror - Each
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CleverPatch Triangular Coloured Markers - Pack of 10
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CleverPatch Junior PVA Glue - 250ml
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Materials used in this activity

CleverPatch Junior PVA Glue - 250ml
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Student Scissors - Each
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CleverPatch Cover Paper - White - A4 - Pack of 250
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Product Code: 16142
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CleverPatch Triangular Coloured Markers - Pack of 10
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Product Code: 16232
EACH $9.89 (inc GST) $8.99 (ex GST)
15 or more $7.36 (inc GST) $6.69 (ex GST)          
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Design Your Own Pocket Mirror - Each
Optional
Product Code: 18711
EACH $5.49 (inc GST) $4.99 (ex GST)
30 or more $4.39 (inc GST) $3.99 (ex GST)          
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CleverPatch Coloured Pencils - Pack of 12
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Product Code: 20770
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