I recently worked with two Year 6 classes (11 year olds) and two Year 2 classes (7 year olds) at a local Primary School. We decided to do sea life since their school logo is two dolphins.
One Year 2 class dyed prefelt with Kool Aid ...
Whilst the other Year 2 class made some lovely textured pre felts....
One Year 6 class made sea anemones / coral ...
And the other class made tropical fish...
The Year 2 children then spent a day putting it all together.
They made the dolphins...
They then worked in groups to lay down the background using wool tops on a layer of blue prefelt ...
They cut the prefelts they had made into seaweed, coral, a couple of jellyfish and starfish. Each child had already used their prefelt to cut out a small fish to be used in some shoals of fish.
And then they positioned everything - which did prove difficult since there was so much to fit on!
It was almost complete in the above photo - there were still two jellyfish and some shoals of fish to squeeze in!
Once everyone was happy there was a lot of rubbing to do - which luckily the children usually really enjoy - especially the wetting out bit.
After the rubbing and some rolling it measured around 110cm by 160cm which was just right for mounting on a 1 metre by 1 and a half metre canvas.
I think the children did a brilliant job. They also made something for themselves - either a jelly fish or a tropical fish.
Pippin thought it was great!
