America! The Flag!

 We always start the month with a flag representing the country, but it would be boring to do the same style paper activity each time.

This month, for America we got our hands and feet covered in white paint and had a lot of fun!

(NB - we were out of large sheets of white paper just that day, otherwise, we would have gone crazy with red and blue paints!!!)

MeXiCo~! The rice flag!

We're studying Mexico this month!
It's a great country for artistic endeavors!

I just wish we had more time to get involved...we have so many activities and days out this month, but here's our flag to start with!

We had great time mixing the rice (food colouring + rubbing alcohol)

After laying out all of the rice, we then decided to draw and paint our own mini flags to take home. Even with hoards of glue, the rice went everywhere! But, it was so much fun!!

 

INDiA!

New Month, New theme...!

It is important to make the flags together with the class, but simply drawing in our sketch books or painting one just isn't enough!

For this one, we used carrots, Japanese daikon (radish), mint, spinach & coriander. It smelt amazing! Luckily for the Dharma Chakra in the middle, the daikon was the perfect size! We coloured it blue.

In the packs I sent home for each student, I found a blueberry just to maintain the effect.