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.

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.

The Big Draw in Nursery

In Nursery we were challenged to draw a caterpillar, which would be displayed in the hall in our Big Draw exhibition the following day.

Our caterpillar was massive!  We drew lots of colourful lines on to it with strips cut from plastic bags, plastic straws and bottle tops.

We laid down different colours next to eachother to make it fun and also in different directions to create a 3d effect with movement.

It was very gluey - would it be dry in time?...

We were the first class to visit the hall to draw on the giant "green grass" floor.

We all got stuck into drawing mini-beasts, fish, flowers - whatever we were inspired to.

Back in class, we got to draw patterns on to butterfly shapes which we then decorated with sparkles.

Then, we each coloured in a handprint which was later cut out and made into trees. These butterflies and trees were displayed in the Big Draw exhibition.

Lastly, we drew mini-beasts on to buns with icing, icing pens and sweets.  Anyone hungry?

On Tuesday afternoon we took our mums, dads, grandparents, childminders and so on to the Big Draw exhibition to show them the unique things we had drawn.