Wednesday 19 March 2014

The Big Draw in Years 3/4


Year 3/4's project for the Big Draw was to produce three large reproductions of paintings of landscapes, one for each of the three classes. Each painting was divided into fifteen equal parts and fifteen pupils were given a different section to transfer on to their A2 pieces of plain paper.



The hope was that when the fifteen pieces were put together they would make up a replica of the original painting.



The other pupils in class used glass pens to draw on acetate to create skylines which would be displayed on the windows in the hall.



When it was Year 3/4's turn to visit the hall they were challenged to draw things you would see in an allotment. There were detailed drawings of vegetable beds, cabbages, peas, plants, flowers and even some fabulous scarecrows.




Each pupil also drew around their hand and inserted a word to mean friendship. They then created a funky design in the hand.  These were then made into trees to display in the hall in the Big Draw exhibition.





The next day we showed off our large drawings and acetate pictures to our friends and family in our community afternoon which celebrated all the wonderful drawing we had done throughout the day.



The Big Draw in Key Stage 1

On the day of the Big Draw KS1 created some fabulous collaborative abstract animals which were displayed in the Big Draw exhibition.






Each of the three KS1 classes chose an animal on which they concentrated on in class and they chose, fish, frogs and birds.



Pictures to use for inspiration were placed around the class and the children made observational drawings from these.



They were encouraged to carefully draw the outline and features whilst looking at the proportions, shape and size.



The children could choose from a variety of media like chalk, paint,sand, felt pens, collage, paper, fabric and glue.






Then it was time to visit the hall where the children were encouraged to draw and mark-make their small animals on the "green grass floor and stream."




When the children got back to class they were encouraged to be creative and think of their animals as abstract.




Throughout the day there were lots of independent activities set up, small scale drawing, large scale drawing, drawing around your own hand for the trees to be displayed in the hall, animal patterns to be practised and animal colouring sheets.


The day after we invited our friends and families into our school hall to see the Big Draw Exhibition.

Tuesday 11 March 2014

Drawing in the Reception class on the day of The Big Draw


On the day of The Big Draw our Reception class was challenged to create, the most beautiful butterfly.


Using "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" children's book as inspiration I am sure you will agree they made the most brilliant butterfly.


Small groups of pupils worked on the giant butterfly, drawing with squares of fabric, putting down layers of colour in an Impressionist way.



The Reception class were the second class to visit the hall.



They, like the Nursery children were asked to draw mini-beasts, fish, flowers and so on.



This they did, straight away and produced some really exciting drawings.



As we know, butterflies have symmetrical patterns and this we practised on the computers.


Each pupil drew their own butterfly to display in the hall, remembering those instructions about how the patterns need to be symmetrical.



We also got the chance to make some marks with leaves.  In the Big Draw exhibition we wanted to make trees as part of the theme "Outside." Drawing around our hands and printmaking with the leaves made the trees.


On the afternoon of The Big Draw the Reception children were able to show their family and friends all the exciting drawing they had done.