To look and not to look

 This lesson is great fun and I have tied it again and again with myself, simply because I love the outcome.

 I use this as part of the art lesson because with younger children it goes really quickly.

 Step one  - get the children to draw a hand

 Step  two - get the children to draw a their hand WITHOUT looking at it at all. Try and draw it in one go without lifting the pencil. This is difficult for younger children. If the child struggles not to look at their hand , a divide between the hand and paper might work or place the hand in a bag.

Step three - draw  your hand with both looking at the hand and looking at the paper. Carefully observe and translate what is seen onto the paper.

The Mirror Image of it

 Towards the end of this last term and year , everyone was tired. It was a perfect opportunity to do a fairly easy art lesson on complementary colours and shape. The children loved this one.

  Here are some of the results.