mural completed

Here's a pic of the 'finished' mural I've been painting on and off for the last few weeks. Not ecstatically happy with it but time ran out on me to do a more detailed job. It looks good from a distance and does brighten the wall up!

Hopefully the children will enjoy spotting all the different creatures, counting the red/white/yellow flowers, as well as discovering which ladybird has the most spots etc.

Mural and cards

A quick pic of a mural I'm currently in the process of painting in our FS2. I went for simple, bright graphics rather than a 'realistic' representation.

And I hadn't realised what a variety of 'designs' I've created on my hand-drawn cards until I began to sort them into groups today! I've obviously done a lot more of some designs than others.

Must start trying to sell some.

this past week

This last week was mainly taken up with going back to UK and back for my son's graduation, so I was only in school for a couple of days - I could get used to that!

The mural on the FS1 wall is now finished - I hope. Barring rain storms and helpful little hands touching the paint to see if it's dry, it should be ok to varnish this week.

 

 

Fruits & veg

Transport

Children playing

And, as a thankyou for the children in my Enterprise club, who've been busy this year making things to sell at our school fairs, I've made some robot pencil toppers. Wooden bobbin bodies, shaped 'lollipop' arms - jointed using thread and beads, wooden bead heads and screw in eyelets for antennae.

recent

The mural on the FS1 wall continues to grow - this is part of the section supposedly showing children at play!

 

In FS2 we've painted, based and rigged our salt dough pirate ships.

In Y1 we painted our clay fish....

....and created underwater seascapes to display them.

In Y2 we began to papier mache the dinosaur heads - ready to take the pneumatic operating system (syringes and plastic tubing!).

plein air

We've been painting 'murials' (in Hilda Ogden speak) on the outside wall of our FS1 building. It's a work in progress and will take a good few weeks (time and weather permitting) as there's over 20m of wall to do!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We've started with flowers and vegetables as this section is next to the garden area.