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Pretty Things: Growing garden
Hold to watch the shapes grow! Use the buttons in the top left to save, load and print your creations!
You can use this activity with the other Pretty Things activities for even more amazing results! In the left-hand margin are other works you have made during the session. Select one to open it in the canvas area and work on top of it. NOTE: These will not be saved automatically when you finish your session on Busy Things.
Discussion points
- Tell someone about your picture.
- What do you like about your picture?
- Tell someone about your picture.
- What do you like about your picture?
- What does each pattern remind you of? Why?
- What picture could you make with these?
- Which colours are in your picture?
- What could each tool represent? Why?
- Which tool do you prefer? Why?
- How could you use these techniques in your own artwork?
Teaching tips:
It is a great way of developing language, for example, children may describe the lines as, ‘swirly’ ‘spiky’ or ‘whooshing.’ See what other words they can come up with. Encourage children to name some of the colours they can see.
Vocabulary can be developed by getting children to talk about their creation and the patterns/pictures they have made.
Encourage children to discuss what they notice when they select and use different features. How can they describe each line? ‘Spiky’ ‘swirly’ ‘whooshing’ ‘fizzing’ ‘twirling’.
Link to ‘plants’ in science by planting some seeds and observing how they grow into mature plants.
Following this, ask children what they could draw using the tools by asking them what they remind children of? Make sure they use control in their drawing and choose the tools carefully to represent something.
Children could use some of the techniques in their own piece of creative work.
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