Sunflower art

This week, we have been learning about sunflowers. We have found very tall sunflowers in the school garden too. We talked about how a sunflower grows and one of the children talked about how a puhutekawa tree grows from a tree needing the sun and water. As we drew a picture of a sunflower, we talked about the parts of the sunflower, petals, stem, roots, seeds. 

This was process art where there are quite a few steps in order to create the art. The fist step was drawing the sunflower with a pencil. The next was to use a bottle of the mixture (glue and black paint) to trace the pencil line. This was hugely challenging as it was quite big to hold for the children, but they did an amazing job of staying focused, persevering through difficulties, and achieving their goals. One of the girls said "My hand is so sore from squeezing!" 

We waited overnight for the glue to dry and the next day, moved on to painting with dye.

This was a creative process. Wonderful bright colours. They chose to paint the sunflower and its backgrounds.

Amazing sunflower art. Each of them is very unique. What a fantastic job everyone did!