Rocket Ships

I was very excited to teach today’s lesson because I had such a fun time teaching it to Ashleigh’s class a few weeks ago. And today was just as enjoyable with Mel’s class.

For the first part of today’s lesson the students made fiery tails for their rockets. They learnt how to blend paint on paper to make a new colour. For the rocket tails they blended yellow and red paint in a triangular shape. I love teaching children new painting techniques, they are always very eager to take risks and try out the new skills.

The next part of today’s lesson was probably the most fun part of the day - making the swirly galaxy backgrounds. First the students mixed light blue and purple on their palettes. Then they used sponges to add layers of paint to black paper to create a textured background. Following that the students splattered yellow paint on top to make stars. Splattering the paint was very popular with the students!

I loved observing the different approaches the students took when using the sponges and splattering the paint. I am pleased that the art room is a comfortable space where the students feel confident trialing new ideas and taking creative risks.

While the painted pieces of the artworks were drying we got stuck into making the collaged rockets. I showed the students how to fold their paper in half to make symmetrical rocket ships and wings. Once again, I loved seeing the creativity and variation in design.

The students showed wonderful resilience while measuring, cutting and glueing their pieces together to make the rockets. They glued the rockets onto the fiery tails, cut them out very carefully a d glued them to their galaxy backgrounds.

The finished artworks are lovely! They will be used for our Calendar Art fundraiser later this year. Families can purchase calendars, cards, diaries or notebooks with the fiery rockets printed onto them.