Guest Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Just got to tell you about the great night we had last night; we held an Art Exhibition. We are part of a big organisation, but with only 6 nurseries. Our charity of the year is Help the Hospices. Quite a while ago I had an idea of organising an art exhibition but never really followed it through anyway thought it would be an ideal way to raise money for the charity. We bought square shaped canvases, one for each child, who were then encouraged to paint whatever they wanted (with strict instructions to the baby room that it was not to be hands and feet; I wanted masterpieces!!), the older ones told us what they were painting. We also bought 5 larger canvases and each room had a hand in making a joint masterpiece. We cleared out the cloakroom area of the nursery, fortunately the walls are white so we just covered all displays with white paper, giving the impression of a blank canvas then very professionally looking (using blue tack!!) hung the canvases and named them "A Fire Engine by Jim aged 4, or for the younger ones we just put the name and age. We didnt hang them in groups we mixed them all up so that everyone had to look at everyones to find their child's one!!. We displayed the bigger canvases in the foyer and invited people to make a silent bid for them. We sent personal invites to the children's homes. We had cheeses, wine etc. Quite a few parents came and quite a few parents who couldn't make it bought on the way out and no doubt more mater pieces will be bought next week. Last night we reckon we made £200 with one of the silent bids being £60!!! What a huge success, we reckon we will have made about £500 for the charity and that includes taking £1 away for the cost of the canvases! Parents loved it and some got quite emotional!! My girls worked really hard getting it ready and we didnt wear uniform, we dressed up; the nursery was buzzing once the last child left till the parents arrived (and smelled quite strongly on deodorant, perfume, hairspray etc) and so was a great team building exercise too; I'm really proud of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue R Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 What a fantastic idea! I'm glad it all went well. you should be really proud of yourselves Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 what a lovely way to raise money and show off all the children's art work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Congratulations! That sounds amazing and I'm only sorry I couldn't have been a fly on the wall! Did you take any pictures you can show us? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Thank you for your kind words. The photos on work computer I'll try and get some on next week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 How brilliant! Sunnyday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyMaz Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 What a fantastic idea - I'm sure we could all adapt it to raise money either for our own settings, or for a favourite charity! Looking forward to seeing the photos! Maz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Wow! What a fantastic idea! Looking forward to see the photos. Lxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 (edited) Sorry for the delay in posting these photos but with the odd case of swine flu and then playing catch up it has taken me a while to get round to it! Attached (I hope) are some photos of our Art Exhibition. The photo with the 5 pictures on easels in our foyer shows the pictures done by all of the children in their respective rooms (we have 5 rooms hence 5 pictures), we auctioned them by silent auction and those 5 paintings alone raised £145!! I've also attached a photo showing some of the masterpieces and how we displayed them and the 3rd one shows how we set the area up to display them. We reckon we will have raised approx £450-£500 if all of the paintings go; a who couldn't buy their child's masterpiece??!! A brilliant night!! Edited August 7, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 Forgot to say that the tiger was a joint effort by the 3-5's; bless!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam2368 Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 What a fantastic idea. I love the idea of the joint projects. Might have to pinch that one.... Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panders Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 This is such a lovely idea for the whole nursery to get involved in - what kind of paints did you use on the canvases? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 Sam - feel free to pinch! Panders - we used acrylic paints as they were recommended Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 The photos look great. What a brilliant idea and a fun way to raise money for charity. Sounds like you had a fantastic time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 Fantastic idea, great pics Maybe you should send this 'story' to Nursery World, as well as sharing this lovely idea with more practitioners, you may also win 'letter of the week' and win some books for the Nursery too. (I suggest this because I won some a few years ago when I described and sent a picture of one of my divider displays) Peggy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 Forgot to ask, where did you get the canvases from? Peggy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 We got the small ones from Wilkinsons on line, they worked out at £1 each and the bigger ones we got from the 99p shop for..........99p!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 We got the small ones from Wilkinsons on line, they worked out at £1 each and the bigger ones we got from the 99p shop for..........99p!! Thanks. Wish I had a preschool again to do such a lovely event. Peggy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueJ Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Have just clocked this post - what a brilliant idea Canvasses looked fab (and such bargain prices too!) Will also have to look at having a go if that's ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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