Oh The Weather Outside is Frightful...

..But our art is so delightful! Have a look at some of our Winter/Christmas themed art.
































These funky reindeer were fun to make. We experimented with lots of different patterns.






We had to experiment with mixing many different shades of blue to make these Winter landscape scenes!







We have been exploring materials and their properties in science and therefore thought it would be a good idea to use various different fabrics to make our penguins. 



Making sure each paper strip was only 1cm wide when making these Christmas trees was quite hard! 

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