Years 1 and 2 Thursdays

Art Club for years 1 and 2 will be held in Sparrow Class. Your lovely children will be ready for collection at 4:30 at the door of Sparrow Class (year 1) backing onto the school field.

Cave Painting

For the last two weeks, Thursday Art Club have been thinking about cave painting. After reading Julia Donaldson’s Cave Baby for inspiration, we took a look at some of the earliest pictures ever made by humans and talked about how they may have been made and what was shown in them. We then went into our very own Sparrow Class caves and had a go at cave painting ourselves.

The following week, we learned a little more about how cave painters may have made their paint. We talked about what pigment means, the different things early humans would have used for theirs and also what they might have mixed their pigment with to paint it onto the walls. We then found similar substances - charcoal, spices and chalk - crushed them with sticks and mixed them with water to make a paste to use on our cave walls (aka a piece of cave coloured paper). Although the group wanted to go full stone-age and grind the pigment in their mouths before spitting them onto their surfaces, we decided against it for reasons everyone understood! Take a look below for the Flintstone-tastic results…