Sunflowers

 We grew our own sunflowers in school, then sent them home before they got too leggy or they wouldn't make it past the school yard!

Year 2

Firstly,  we printed a bit of yellow onto white paper for a little colour.

Then, the children observed a sunflower and made a pencilled line drawing.

We printed a real sunflower leaf here. Then put some detail on top.

With year 1 ...a different technique 

We printed the centre  with bubble wrap and brown ink onto brown packaging. The children drew petals and added bits of collage, fabric, paper, recycling...anything yellowy that  I could  find. 

When dry, we used bits of fabric for the background and the vase, to make our own Van Gogh! This is just laid out onto the carpet,  the children sat around and added their flower one at a time whilst listening to music. Lovely! 

In year 3, children used oil pastels to draw sunflowers onto brown paper bags. We made sunflower growing kits to sell. The bird feeders were made from the recycled milk cartons.