Discover at Home is a special on-line version of Arts Award Discover, the first level of Arts Award and is aimed at children aged 11 and under. Arts Award is a set of awards for children and young people that gets them involved in and excited about arts and culture and celebrates their creative achievements.
Usually children are supported to achieve Arts Award by a trained Arts Award adviser. However, during the coronavirus pandemic, Arts Award Discover at Home has been designed to keep children engaged in the arts and creative while they are at home.
This resource is open to parents and carers, as well as schools and groups.

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​Click on the video and take a sneaky peak behind the doors of Kingshill House. Learn how you can be inspired from your surroundings to create your own patterns, using objects that you can find in your home. Have a go at all three parts of the challenge and we look forward to seeing your results!

Part A: Discover
First, find and choose an object that you have lots of in your house that may be a variety of colours or sizes and then ask the grown up in the house for permission to use the object for your ‘Discover at Home’ Project.
 Next, working with your chosen object, find out what patterns you can make by placing them next to each other in repeated straight lines, circles, squares to build a pattern or ‘motif’. Explore what happens to your pattern when you limit/extend the number of colours that you use or work with the same coloured object but in different sizes. When you are happy with the pattern or ‘motif’ that you have made, think how you can make it bigger by repeating it, rotating it or reflecting it.
Finally, share your pattern and motif making. You can do this by showing someone in your family the original work. If you have access to a camera, you could photograph it to share with a wider audience, as well as having a record of each pattern that you make for yourself.

Part B: Find Out
Choose one artist to research. Choose Adam Hillman, (multi-media artist) if you are working with manmade objects such as Lego or paperclips or Andy Goldsworthy (land artist) if you prefer to work with more natural materials such as stones, twigs or leaves.
Remember that you can find out lots about artists by using ‘Google Images’ or searching ‘YouTube’ for videos. 

Part C: Share
Share your lovely patterns with friends and family or post it on social media: be sure to use the hashtag #artsawardathome #loveartsaward

We would love to see the amazing patterns that you have created so please e-mail zoe@kingshillhouse.org.uk with your picture attached and then we can show it off on our Facebook page!
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Extra challenges
If you have access to an electrical device which allows you to photograph your work and download apps, further explore how you can develop your pattern using apps such as ‘layout’ or ‘incollage’. ​