Butterflies

Why is a butterfly called a butterfly?

This and many other questions about butterflies were generated when we started the next two sessions . Andrew suggested to the children that butterflies have a very short life span and that many artists have interpreted the theme in wide and varied ways.

The children drew a butterfly just from memory and coloured it.

Then children saw lots of different installations by artist such as Damien Hirst and Natasha Lewis they saw the different ways butterflies were explored by them .

With this visual experience behind them the children then studied images of actual butterflies and drew a second butterfly this time a much more informed image was produced.

They created drawn stencils of their own in 3 different sizes and drew around these to make about ten butterflies which they then collaged and coloured .
These were then backed with sticky coloured paper and laminated.
These are going to be installed in different locations around school that. The children have selected.