Bugs, Bugs, Bugs, Bugs!

Our Calendar Art is inspired by the story of James and the Giant Peach. During this term we have listened to Mrs Majurey read the story of James and the Giant Peach and then we watched the movie and talked about comparisons.

We noticed lots of differences between the book and the movie, but there were also many things that stayed the same. The photo above is of our quick brain storm.

We were going to draw the characters of the story for our Calendar Art but decided it was a bit tricky so Mrs Majurey showed us how to draw Alphabet Bugs

Your child should be able to explain how Rudi's picture was formed using letters of the alphabet. After we drew our bug in pencil we went over the lines in vivid.

Our bugs were then painted with water colour tablet paints.

The backgrounds were created using crayon and dye. We drew gardens for our bugs. When both bugs and gardens were dry we cut out our bugs and glued them on to the garden background.

Please purchase your child's Calendar Art. They make very good Christmas Presents. You can purchase calendars or diaries. Keep an eye our for the order form next week!