For our last session Ann came to school armed with boxes and boxes of supplies!!  The class were unable to control themselves from the minute Ann told them they were going to be developing their own photograms in the darkroom.  This was a very active and ‘hands on’ session as only a small group could work with Ann in the darkroom – so I came up with an activity for the rest!

We began by mixing the chemicals needed to develop our photograms.

While Ann was working with a small group in the darkroom, (renamed store!!) I thought we could revisit the theme of colour mixing and spinning discs – could we get 23 all spinning at once???

23 electrical circuits with spinning discs – all at once??

23 children all hidden – only spinning discs to be seen??

A little ambitious – I think we managed 8 but what fun we had trying.

In the dark room meanwhile peace and calm reigned only ooohs and aaahs rang.

What a wonderful day – new skills, new knowledge, fun, excitement and fantastic end results.