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.