Mexican symmetrical crafts

CHECK OUT ROOM 4'S LATEST MATHS - YES MATHS! We made these Mexican God's Eyes to help demonstrate rotational symmetry.
Wikipedia tells us that a God's eye is a yarn weaving and a spiritual object. The Ojo de Dios (Eye of God in Spanish) is woven with yarn and wood, often with several colors. Traditionally they have been created for celebration or blessing, presented as a gift or designed to bless a home.
We had great fun creating our own God's eyes and soon got the hang of it.  Some of us even made a second one using sticks from nature.


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Pencil sketching - boots

For art we are learning to use our 'ping-pong' eyes to look - sketch - look - sketch - look - sketch...  and draw what we SEE, not what we think an object looks like.  We have been working on noticing shapes within objects that we are sketching and trying to get the size and proportion right.  We have also been exploring ways to represent detail and texture by using our pencils in different ways.

Today Mrs O brought along a variety of boots for us to sketch.  See if you can work out which boot each of us sketched.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still 2 more to come...

Symmetrical bugs

We love MATHS ART in Room 4.  This week we took notice that insects, bugs and butterflies in nature are often symmetrical.  So we created our own symmetrical bug art work.
We began by folding our page in half vertically and drawing half of our unique bugs with chalk, then going over the chalk lines with black pastel.  But how did we make sure that we made it completely symmetrical?  We folded our bugs back in half again and pressed down hard so that the pastel transferred to the other side.  All we had to do then was to go over the pastel lines.  We coloured our bug in symmetrically and finally dyed the background.  The final products are very eye-catching!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name tangles

Our introduction to pencil sketching involved creating our own Name Tangle. We enjoyed experimenting with our pencils, making marks and patterns in different ways.