Day One
Reception Jets have had a great start to Arts Week meeting Supertato! – One powerful potato who uses his super strength and super speed to defeat the Evil Pea!
Today the children listened to the story for the first time and were immediately engaged by his comical character. We looked closely at the use of colour and discussed the human features which the illustrator has used to animate the vegetables in distress! Alongside superhero belt making, mixing colours with the evil peas and turning themselves into superheroes, they began their creative journey by exploring oil pastels and the different techniques which can be used. In the afternoon they applied this learning to creating their own observation drawings of superhero vegetables.
We are really looking forward to meeting our artist tomorrow and begin collaging and drawing on a larger scale…
Day Two
After completing our sponsored run, we were ready get messy for day two of Arts Week!
Today we met our wonderful artist Isobel. We worked with her in groups and she showed us the skill of collaging using different materials. We began to piece together the background of our very own Supertato comic strip, which we will showcase to you at the end of the week!
The children also did a fantastic job of using different media to create their own superhero vegetables! We had super carrots, courgettes, leeks, sweet potatoes and peppers. They really enjoyed this activity and the finished products put a huge smile on mine and Mrs Berryman’s faces 🙂
Enjoy today’s pictures…
Reception Jets Superhero Vegetables! on PhotoPeach
Working with our artist! on PhotoPeach
Day Three
Today we were lucky enough to have Isobel the artist with us again. This morning she showed us how to draw Supertato paying extra attention to detail…the children have never been so quiet! They then applied this learning to using fine markers and watercolours to add characters to our comic strip. It is coming together nicely and I’m looking forward to seeing the finished product 🙂
Reception Jets Drawing Superveg! on PhotoPeach
Alongside this we got messy with paint and explored printing and pattern with different kinds of vegetables. Take a look!
Printing and Pattern on PhotoPeach