Newspaper cats

Year 1 students learnt how to draw a cat in their sketch books and then we transferred this knowledge onto newspaper.  They needed to draw each part of the cat, in pencil, onto the newspaper.  Firstly we started with the round shape of the face and glued that onto coloured paper.  Then we added ears and a body.  The eyes were drawn and coloured in on white paper and attached to the face.  Whiskers were cut out from strips of paper and glued into place.  Lastly they drew a collar using black vivid.

Cats on Calico

 These lovely cats were painted by Year 3 students.  We sketched many cat shapes and angles.  The children selected their favourite cat and enlarged it onto their piece of calico.
They outlined the pencil in black permanent pen.  I demonstrated how to apply paint to their brushes and also how to apply it to fabric.  I used acrylic paint and not the fabric paint, as this was not an item that would be washed and it didn't need setting.
The children needed to go over their painting several times to fill in the white spaces that appeared.
Finally they used a small amount to black on their brushes to shade areas.