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Darrell Wakelam
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Freelance artist and provider of 3D ART workshops & training. Author of the best-selling book Art Shaped. Free ART ideas and projects at www.darrellwakelam.com
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Are you after the perfect Christmas gift for your creative loved one? 🤔 Do they like making things?
Well this might be the perfect little surprise. 😮😁
'Art Shaped' is my best-selling guide to 3D making, with over 150 five-star reviews 🤩
It's here ⬇️
www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Shaped-s...
#edusky
A little advert for my best-selling book 'Art Shaped'
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It is quite crazy watching something you've made just spring into life. It's like 'Frankenstein's Fish'. 😮😆
Creating film from images is still a bit clunky, but the future arrives fast!
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November 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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A cardboard bird . . . made entirely from recycled cardboard tubes. "You don't need a mountain of materials, or expensive tools and equipment to make something that is sophisticated and beautiful" DW
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A bird made entirely from recycled cardboard tubes
November 15, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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I rounded off the week with a 'zoom' visit up to Hope School in Liverpool to share some skills and techniques with the children . . . and to answer their questions about art, ice creams, and crisp flavours. 😆😆😆
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Photos of me delivering various online 'zoom' workshops over the last few years on all kinds of themes. In each photo I'm holding up a different piece of work, fossils, fish, trees, rockets, masks etc.
November 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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I've had a very busy few days up at Old Church Primary working with both Year 3 classes. Every child has had four different sessions working on this large scale display piece. A 'knowledge' tree, with the school's four 'values' as its roots. 😁
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A 'knowledge tree' made by the 60 Year three children from Old Church Primary School in Wednesbury. Their tree is full of books and the roots carry the four school 'values, Respect, resilience, relationships, and responsibility.
November 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Here's a small selection of the poppies made by children for Remembrance Day using one of my simple cardboard projects. Both methods just use recycled, paper-based materials, allowing them to be recycled too (no plastic)
Both videos are on my YouTube channel. (my name)
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Poppies made for Remembrance Day by children using one of my making ideas. Poppies made for Remembrance Day by children using one of my making ideas. The two different poppy making activities I have on my YouTube channel (my name)
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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After last year's success, I'm doing more online Christmas workshops this year. So, if you want to do some festive making with your class, get in touch.
You choose what we make, I'll show you the skills, then off you go!
One-hour sessions am/pm
15th - 19th December 🙂
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Photos of just a few of my Christmas art projects, reindeer, snowmen, Christmas trees, robins, and Father Christmas.
November 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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I've been over to St. Mary's at Bradford Abbas for a couple of days, helping to create a 'whole school' display piece based on their school motto 'Roots to grow, wings to fly.' The kids were fantastic. 🤩
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A large display piece created by the whole school, the image shows the school itself, set in the beautiful surroundings, incorporating a tree with roots under the school, and a flock of birds coming out of the tree's branches.
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I'm currently making the four god-heads from the Ancient Egyptian 'canopic jars' (the jars that contained the removed organs) Here's two of them, the falcon-headed Qebehsenuef, and the baboon-headed Hapi.
Recycled tubes and wooden spoons.
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A small model of the head of a baboon, based on ancient Egyptian artwork. A small model of the head of a Falcon, based on ancient Egyptian artwork.
November 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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At my workshop last week at Weymouth library, the kids chose to make one of three sea creatures. The library asked me (for a small fee) to finish off my examples for them to display, so I have. 🤩
I hope they like them.
*All based on ideas from my book Art Shaped. 😁
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My relief sculptures of three different sea creatures, a fish, a seahorse, and a starfish, all made from recycled cardboard.
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Are you after the perfect Christmas gift for your creative loved one? 🤔 Do they like making things?
Well this might be the perfect little surprise. 😮😁
'Art Shaped' is my best-selling guide to 3D making, with over 150 five-star reviews 🤩
It's here ⬇️
www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Shaped-s...
#edusky
A little advert for my best-selling book 'Art Shaped'
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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I've just seen this on Amazon . . . . surely I should be getting some sort of sponsorship deal by now? 😂😂😂 👀👀👀
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A screen shot from Amazon showing my book 'Art Shaped' alongside a photo of a pack of masking tape rolls under the heading 'frequently bought together'
November 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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It's funny sometimes how artistically, one thing can subconsciously inspire another. I've been making some Ancient Egyptian work lately, obviously studying lots of images. To me, that appears to have impacted these faces I'm making, like the 'style' has seeped in.
I like them.
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two small cardboard faces, built from recycled cardboard tubes attached to wooden spoons
November 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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If you're looking for some cheap Halloween craft ideas, all three of these are on the website. All you need is some glue and a bit of tape . . . one paper plate, one cardboard tube, one egg box. 🤩
Here's the link www.darrellwakelam.com/news
Photos of my 'egg box monsters' made from just one recycled egg box. Photos of my 'Cardboard Tube Lanterns', made from just one recycled cardboard tube. Photos of my 'Paper Plate Ghosts', made from one paper plate.
October 31, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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I painted one of my 'egg box monsters' today . . . hopefully it isn't too scary? 😁😮
You can find the making instructions for these on my website here . . . www.darrellwakelam.com/news/egg-box...
#Halloween #edusky
October 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Half-term offers me some time to make what I want to make, rather than just 'work' stuff. Here's a couple of faces that are currently on the desk.
Recycled tubes and two spoons.
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Two small 3D faces made from recycled cardboard tubes and attached to wooden spoons.
October 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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'Egg Box Monsters' are now up on the website, I've included extra info, photos, and the full video here . . . www.darrellwakelam.com/news/egg-box...
#edusky #halloween
I share ideas you can use with children, but please don't revamp, or re-record without permission. Ideas are intellectual property.
A selection of spooky monsters made from egg boxes.
October 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Introducing ‘Egg Box Monsters’ . . . just in time for half-term and Halloween.
One egg box, no leftovers, totally recyclable. What I call ‘Pure Making’.
Full instructions are on the website here . . . www.darrellwakelam.com/news/egg-box...
#edusky #halloween
October 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I made a flying visit to Unity Academy in Kidderminster on Friday, and this tree was the result. All of the kids here are currently out of mainstream Ed, but art can be a way in. Out of about 30 kids all but 2 took part, and worked hard throughout the sessions. 🙂
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A large-scale relief sculpture of a tree created by the students attending Unity Academy in Kidderminster. I intentionally encouraged the students to choose colours that weren't realistic, so the tree has golds, reds and purples, while the sky is a fiery orange and the landscape a cool turquoise.
October 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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My half-term begins, but a day later than most, after today's 'sea creatures' workshop over at Weymouth library. We had lots of lovely families attend, and some very cute results. 😁
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Cardboard sea creatures, created at today's workshops at Weymouth library.
October 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I’ve been up to Lickey End First School in Bromsgrove this week, helping the children to rebuild their lovely little school, from cardboard! 😁😮
Every child has taken part, remember the oldest is only 7!
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The children’s sculpture of their school, made from cardboard, covered with paper mache, and painted. The children’s sculpture of their school, made from cardboard, covered with paper mache, and painted. The children’s sculpture of their school, made from cardboard, covered with paper mache, and painted. The children’s sculpture of their school, made from cardboard, covered with paper mache, and painted.
October 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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'Cardboard THING' is by far my most popular YouTube clip (DarrellWakelam) and since creating it 3 years ago, it's had over 175,000 views, which is 174,000 more than most of my videos. 😂😮
It's also on the 'news' link at www.darrellwakelam.com . . . just scroll down to 'Handmade Halloween'
#Halloween
A cardboard model of 'Thing', the disembodied hand with a life of its own, from the Addams Family films. I made this a few years back from just one cardboard tube and some kitchen foil.
October 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Paper Plate Ghosts is my latest original project, and you can find the instructions on my website using the link below.
“Who you gonna call?” 😁👀👻

www.darrellwakelam.com/news/paper-p...
#edusky #artproject #halloween
October 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I've got to say, today's artwork was pretty tasty! 😆 The Year 7 kids from Polwhele House in Cornwall had a lot of fun making these. Created from scratch in just one day. 😮
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3D large-scale Ice cream sculptures, made from scratch in just one day by the Year 7 children from Polwhele House in Cornwall. These sculptures are made entirely from cardboard, paper, paper straws and tissue, with a little paint to finish them off.
October 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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My 'Corrugated Cardboard Seahorses' are now available at www.darrellwakelam.com with info, video clips, and photos of the process. Click on the 'news' link on my homepage.
I share ideas freely, so please respect that and don't revamp or re-record without permission. Thanks.
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A pair of corrugated card seahorses. I'm sharing these again as they are now up on the website along with video clips, information, and process photos.
October 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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So, I was back at North Newton Primary again today, where the Year 3/4 class wanted to make some artwork inspired by cave paintings. Look at their marvellous creatures. 🙂
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Artwork created by the Year 3/4 class today inspired by cave paintings. The children worked in pairs to build a 3D relief image of an animal based on reference photos. They used cardboard and paper straws and then added colour using tissue paper.
October 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM