We made more rockets in art today. We each got a black sheet of paper, onto which we wrote our names, cut out felt pieces to make a rocket, used coloured wool for the fire blasting out of the rocket, then used potato prints to add stars, moons and planets to our pictures. We would love to be blasting off to space in the rockets we made.
We also did a really nice space scene this week. We used marbelling ink to turn our plain white pages into lovely patterns, then we cut out these pages into circles to look like planets. We painted or coloured rockets, and stuck these on to our space scene with the planets. They look really fabulous!
We made nice colour wheel pictures. We coloured the picture, and then painted the drum. Teacher showed us where to put the red, yellow and blue paints. 
Then we started mixing colours. We discovered that red and yellow make orange, red and blue make purple and yellow and blue make green. We enjoyed the mixing. Someone even discovered that if you mix all the colours together you can make brown. 
Later in the day we used the colours that we had mixed to paint snakes. Teacher has plans for the snakes. We might be using them for science when we cut them out!
We cut and stuck scarey skeletons, and we painted, cut and decorated pumpkins. More to do yet in the time left before Hallowe'en.........watch this space!
We painted and cut out great witch masks this week. We hung them looking out our window. When teacher pulled the blinds we could see the really interesting shadows that those witches and our painted tree make.
We made them out of clay, google eyes and pipe cleaners. We painted them black and varnished them with glue. They look great.We did some Hallowe'en prints with sponges. We printed black bats, orange pumpkins and white ghosts. Booo!
We have a fantastic tree painted onto our classroom window. We will change it to match the seasons. It is autumn now so we cut out leaves to stick on the tree, and also falling to the ground "Tá na duilleoga ag titim"! The leaves are red, orange, yellow, brown, black and only a few green ones.
but we made our scarecrows by colouring in a picture of a scarecrow, then cutting it out and sticking it with glue, hessian patches and paper straw onto coloured paper. They look great.
We hung them looking out our window. When teacher pulled the blinds we could see the really interesting shadows that those witches and our painted tree make.
