Colour in Nature: Where Do You Find Nature?

Yesterday while the children were playing with clay they spontaneously began to create nature scenes. Today we discussed all the places they know where nature can be found and chose a scene to create.

Here are their ideas:
"An earthquake forest" - Ryleigh
"A forest" - Tyreese
"A broken down forest" - Michael
"A zoo because tigers and lions are nature" - Billy
"A forest" - Chloe
"A forest" - Bela
"A forest with a castle made of forest stuff" - Sofia

 

 

Colour in Nature: Using Clay to Represent Nature

We've spent a lot of time exploring paint mediums and techniques to represent nature, today the children explored ways they can represent nature with clay. 

I gave the children some time to explore the clay. Ryleigh began making a snowman based on her theory "Snowmen are part of nature because you use snow to make it" Sofia agreed and tried the idea.

Sofie's snowman

It's an elephant snowman

The children followed the steps to make a disc of clay and selected things from nature to make a print. When they were finished they requested more time to play with the clay and proceeded to make scenes: a forest, the beach and a garden. What a great idea to extend! Tomorrow we will make clay nature scenes.