We made super rockets out of clay, and we started making Santa faces out of papier mache. 
There are lots of ways of making the pasted for papier mache. Our teacher makes the paste from flour and water. It smelled quite like baking as it dried over the radiators. We can't wait to finish these projects this week.
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 marbling 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!
