Ten Minute Challenge Totally Dotty

The Challenge

Decide where in your classroom you want to work – this could be agreed together with your students, or set as a specific challenge from you.

To transform the space, choose from the suggestions below (or add your own!):

• If your classroom is already quite busy, try cutting spots out of blank newsprint paper to stick over the walls to create an emptier space
• Invite pupils to add words to an area covered in blank paper until they decide it's finished. Does anything start to make sense? Can it be read?
• Choose a cheap material that you can use in quantity (ideally recycled) such as junk modelling material or newspaper and cut shapes out of it to stick onto the walls
• If you’d prefer not to cover your walls, try coloured tissue paper over windows, vinyl on the floor or even stickers on a single object like a chair or table.

The key part of this challenge is to keep talking and thinking with your group. Here are some starting points:

• Who is the artist making this work? Could it be all of you?
• What is collaboration?
• When is the artwork finished?
• How can people see the finished work (photographs, a private view?)