Beach Huts

This week we talked about the colourful beach huts you find on the beaches. Sadly I don't think we have them in Western Australia but their are a number of beaches in the Eastern States where you can find them along with the UK too. I love them. So much so that a couple of years back I built one for my girls as a cubby complete with it's own sign.

To begin with we started painting our own beach house which my wonderful stepdad had cut out of some leftover timber (which explains the unusual shape of the roof), though we only completed the base colour so far.

Aliya (9)

Amy (age 6)

Zoe (age 5)

Isabella (age 5)

Mia (age 5)

All the kids had to draw their idea of a beach hut. As you can see, we ended up with all sorts of shapes and sizes. Next week they can have free reign adding colour using watercolours and/or pencil them in. I can't wait to see how they all turn out.

I forgot to mention that our topic for this term is the sea. We've talked about the shape of dolphins, starfish, seahorses and coral to name a few and even looked at how they are illustrated in books. This week we looked at the details found on shells, starfish and sea sponges, the circles, waves and bumps in their surfaces, and all had a turn drawing some of them. We then set up a still life (above) and set about drawing this.

After all that drawing they needed some colour so the group was given the choice of chalk pastels, oil pastels and pastel pencils to colour in their artwork.

Start of Term 3

This term started with a wash of colour. I showed the group how they could paint at home even if they didn't have any paint.

With a couple of icecream containers and lids, some food colouring, water, paper and a brush if you have one, they can paint any time they like. We made borders using masking tape and watched our little patches of colour take shape. Luckily we had some beautiful winter sunshine to dry them off relatively quickly.

And lots of little coloured fingers went home...