The children have been learning about the life cycle of the butterfly, including what sort of food they like to eat.
We created some beautiful caterpillars with a sharpie pen and used some dyes made from beetroot and onion juice that a parent brought in.
Here is our beautiful work - you can see it on our wall too.
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| Drawing with sharpie first - observational drawing |
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| Focused artists |
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| Caterpillar |
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| Detailed work |
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| Dying our work |
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| The vegetable dyes |
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| Working carefully |
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| What does it smell like? |
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| Focused learners |
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| Caterpillar |
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| Putting dye on work |
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| Exploring mixing the dyes |
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| Appreciating each other's work |
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| That smells! |
Next, we drew our butterflies. We looked carefully at colours and patterns on monarch butterflies. Again we used a sharpie pen, but we also used crayon for the beautiful colours. The children worked very hard on these and did some stunning work. We finished off by cutting them out by ourselves.
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| Choosing the colours of the monarch |
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| Observational drawing - look, draw, look |
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| Independent and focused learners |
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| Adding detail - I am thinking about my work |
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| Finishing off my work to the end |
Alot of hard mahi going on there, and what beautiful results. Nga mihi, Caroline.
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