Christmas Decorations

Hello everyone,

For the last two days, we have been creating Christmas decorations to sell at our school
Whanua House day. We are doing this to get parents to buy our decorations so that we
have money for next years Ski Trip. 

Kelly and I created a reindeer (Rudolph), Snowman and we each created a toilet roll snowflake.
For our creations we used toilet rolls. To make our reindeer we cut slices on each side of the toilet roll.
Next, we made some earmuffs using pipe cleaners and pom poms. We hot glued them together.
After that, we glued googly eyes on and a big red pom pom for the nose.  We had to make sure
that it was quality over quantity. 

I loved making my snowflake because I could design it myself.
I think I needed to improve my hot gluing skills.

Here are me and Kelly’s creations:

Kandinsky and Silhouette Art

Kia ora,

Last week, we did Kandinsky - Silhouette art. We had to rule boxes on a piece of paper. After that, we had to draw circles, but the circles didn't have to be perfect. Once we finished drawing the boxes and circles, we had to colour the circles and boxes. My pattern on my art went hot background cold background hot background and so on.  We had to colour the circles inside either a cold colour or hot depending on the colour of the box on the outside of our circles. Then, we had to draw on a black piece of paper a life form and cut it out. I chose a tree. Trees produce oxygen for all the living things on Earth. They breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. We had to then glue our life form onto our background. The black life form was the silhouette and the circles represented the Kandinsky. We decided that the circles were cells. Cells make up a life form. The life form we chose represented the shadow of the life form.  I enjoyed drawing my silhouette. The hard part was making sure there were barely any white left on our art. The learning behind this was to know what colours are cold and hot.
Here is my art:

Shadow art

Kia ora
Last week we did an art activity with the theme shadows.
We made a picture of ourselves and had to cut it out with black paper behind it to make a shadow
Here is my work:

Hot Air Balloon Art

For art we created Hot Air Balloons.  We used pastel for the background. We used dye and black PVA glue for the balloon. We weaved the basket. My favourite part was the black PVA.

Collaborative Bird Wings

We made a Collaborative bird for Up, Up and Away. We each made a feather for our birds wings.
How we made our feather:
First we traced around a paper feather.
Secondly we then draw patterns on our feather with chalk.
Lastly we dyed our feather. We had to choose complimentary colours.

Here is our bird.

Here is me with the wings

Pepetuna Art

Easter bunny art

We did marbling for our backgrounds for our Easter bunnies to go on. We used sharpie to make cool patterns and we put glasses on. We then cut our bunnies into parts and glued them onto our colourful backgrounds and then they were ready. Here is my bunny.