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5metres of chicken wire, and the process begins.
Children took turns carefully using the wire cutters and seeing how bendy the wire is.
"these are handy gadgets aren't they?!"
"we have to be careful because they are sharp"
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Tearing the paper into strips to use for our paper mache, learning that tearing in one direction we can make long strips, but tearing the other way doesn't work so well.
Children enjoyed looking at the pictures in the newspaper, especially the sports section as they discussed topics such as football.
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"we can skip and jump over the snake!"
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"aaargh he's biting my hand!"
"I think it could eat eight children!"
Children enjoyed measuring themselves up against the snake as they discussed it's size in relation to 'real' snakes.
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"it's really gooey and sticky!"
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"this is huge isn't it!"
"I just did a puzzle of a snake just like that one!"
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The 3 yr olds enjoy stirring in the flour, pva and watter to make the glue.
"It's like porridge!"
"I wish we could eat it!"
"I had porridge for breakfast!"
"It smells nice"
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Painting the serpent white. A base coat to cover the newspaper.
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Having fun outside learning to dab or sponge paint using kitchen sponges. We made pale earthy tones mixing black and white, and brown and white, then also mixing them together!
"sponge sponge, dab dab, sponge sponge, dab dab!"
"sponge sponge, dab dab, sponge sponge, dab dab!"
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Taking cover from the wind and rain, we moved the serpent under cover, finding a new exciting place to work.
Gaining ideas and inspiration from picture books which display aboriginal art, children drew artistic markings of dots, swirls, lines and zig-zags to then paint in carefully using thin brushes and black paint.
Gaining ideas and inspiration from picture books which display aboriginal art, children drew artistic markings of dots, swirls, lines and zig-zags to then paint in carefully using thin brushes and black paint.
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Time to add some colour!
We have cotton buds for dotting and making thin lines, primary and secondary colours after playing with mixing colours, and a few veggie stamps that we had been using at the easel over the last couple of days.
With all our materials, and brown paper to practice our ideas on, we are ready to smock up and begin!
We have cotton buds for dotting and making thin lines, primary and secondary colours after playing with mixing colours, and a few veggie stamps that we had been using at the easel over the last couple of days.
With all our materials, and brown paper to practice our ideas on, we are ready to smock up and begin!
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The paint palette quickly expands as children explore different techniques and ideas.
As ideas developed, children brought more tools outside to use, some more veggie stamps, plastic shapes and sponges and a plastic bottle.
Finger painting and hand printing soon became a popular tool..
The children got creative, making multi-coloured hand prints!
As ideas developed, children brought more tools outside to use, some more veggie stamps, plastic shapes and sponges and a plastic bottle.
Finger painting and hand printing soon became a popular tool..
The children got creative, making multi-coloured hand prints!
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Some parts were tricky to reach.
"we have to lie on the ground to paint the underneath!"
"I'm painting dotted flowers!"
"I put a smiley face on the snakes nose!"
"I painted a carrot"
"we have to lie on the ground to paint the underneath!"
"I'm painting dotted flowers!"
"I put a smiley face on the snakes nose!"
"I painted a carrot"
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We have colour in vast variety of shapes, applied using a all sorts of mediums, tools and techniques.
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What do snake tongues look like I wonder..
children shared their ideas on a piece of paper.
One child even took the tongue puzzle piece from the large rainbow serpent puzzle and traced it!
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Some eyes and a tongue, and the rainbow serpent is complete after many stages, collaborative teamwork, extended ideas and activities and the hard work of around 40 children.
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Before being hung upside-down on the ceiling in the centre, the kinder's rainbow serpent is on display in the foyer for children to show off to their parents and guardians when they get picked up!