Up, Up, Up and Away!

I'm slowly back tracking through some of the art and craft that I did with my 2/3 class over the past year and I thought I'd share some of my favourites.

This display was created for the local show. Each year our school creates a number of 'show boards' to help decorate the pavilion. I was very excited to create this, and so were the kids! We went with the theme of balloons after reading Where do Balloons Go? by Lauren Cornell.

I gave each student an outline of a balloon and demonstrated different lines and effects using oil pastels. Once they had a practice with the pastels they moved onto their balloon. I love all the different patterns that they came up with. Next up we just added some water colour paint & we were done.

They practiced their photography skills taking the pictures of each other. Next time I'll encourage them to do some more creative poses. We just use some gift ribbon and a staple gun to pin them to the board.