Expressive arts: hapa-zome

Help your pupils unleash their creative side through expressive arts and the Japanese Hapa-Zome.

This easy to teach outdoor lesson involves one simple thing: smashing up plants to release their natural pigment into cloth. Children will love producing these colourful, creative designs; they are the perfect opportunity to support geography and history topics! Likewise, you could add them into a scientific investigation into fabric absorbency and natural dyes.

Above all, they allow pupils to get a bit mucky and connecting with nature!

This resource has been developed by Learning through Landscapes for upper primary pupils and includes references to the curriculum in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and is adaptable for different age groups. For more ideas check out their Curriculum Linked Resources book in the Outdoor Library. 

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, so you can share, use and build upon it as you need to.

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