This week Maree wanted to explore the idea of Patterns in the enviornment. She showed the children pictures of the landscape around her studio. they discussed the ploughed fields and thought about how the farmers made these marks in the land. Then the children set about making their own marks in sand boxes with a variety of different tools.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was a lovely tactile exercise for the children and they became really involved in it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When the children had practised their mark making in the sand they were giving big lumps of potters clay to work with. they loved the feel of the clay and really enjoyed working with it.

We discussed the contrast of the cold, wet, slimey clay and the dry, soft sand. The children decided they loved the feel of them both even though they were so different!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

               The children were delighted to be getting stuck in to the clay and getting their hands dirty! Great fun!

They produced some great work as well as having fun!