Year 3 - 6 Ojos de Dios

Students loved creating the traditional God's Eyes or, in Spanish, Ojos de Dios, and first learned its history. This craft originated with the Huichol indigenous people in western Mexico. The God's Eye is started the first year a baby is born and each year a new colour of yarn is added. It hangs over the child's bed and symbolises God's protective eye watching over the child.

Year 2 Hug Bracelets

Students watched a YouTube video about what happened when a small group of young people in the Italian city, Sondrio, decided to offer free hugs to others. The results were heart-warming! Students then learned how to bend their two pipe cleaners, representing two arms, and how to thread beads on these to create a bracelet.

Prep & P/1C Bead Snakes

First we read The Singing Snake by Stefan Czernecki and Timothy Rhodes, which is based on an Aboriginal legend about how the didgeridoo was first made. This book also has an underlying theme about honesty and playing fair. Students then threaded beads in patterns onto a pipe cleaner and added bead or button eyes to make their own snake.

Year 4 Chinese Dragons

Using oil pastel and watercolour paint

Years 3 & 4 Origami Construction

Students folded frogs, boxes, cats, dogs, fans, Samurai hats, boats and wallets!

Years 5 & 6: Yukon Territory Watercolour Landscape Inpired by artist Ted Harrison

To complete their picture students painted fine lines with black acrylic paint.

Years 5 & 6: Multicultural Art - Mexican Sugar Skulls with Marigolds

Year 5 and 6 students loved this project - drawing and construction based on Mexican traditions!

Year 4 Collage Portraits

Students cut out skin-tone coloured paper pieces to create a collage effect and chose fun facial feature photo printouts to complete their faces. Lastly, animal print paper was used to create imaginative hairstyles!

Prep & P/1C: Come Over to My House Collage

Prep A, B, and Prep/1C created colourful seaside houses by cutting, pasting and drawing after listening to Come Over to My House by Theo LeSieg. The story takes children around the world visiting houses in many different countries. We also discussed primary and secondary colours, and students used paper in these colours for their houses.

Year 2 Torn Paper Portraits

We read a fantastic book called All the Colours of the Earth which discusses multiculturalism. Students tore and glued paper to create imaginative portraits!