Yellow Team Yellow 1 and Yellow 2 looked at the painting and spent a week working on activities related to what they could see in the picture. They made under the sea pictures, visited a fish shop and played fishing games. They really enjoyed roller painting on material to make a patterned cloth and a cushion cover. They also decorated plastic glasses to make special goblets and experimented with lemons squeezing and tasting them and making lemonade. 2
Green 1 looked carefully at the picture and named all of the special objects that we could see. The children noticed the lemons first so we created some beautiful prints using real lemons. One child noticed the angel hiding in the picture. We made special angels out of different shapes and were able to name some 2D and 3D shapes. The rugs in the picture inspired us to do some paper weaving which we then turned into our Easter baskets to put our eggs in. The children also coloured in some lobsters and used them to do counting and number work. Green Team Green 2 After initially looking at the painting the children spent the week reading the story Larry the Lobster and making numeracy books Lobster count They finished the week by painting an under the sea scene adding their Lobsters. Green 3 Here s what we did. First we had a look at the picture and said what we can see. We also listened to under the sea song from the little mermaid and looked at photos of real lobsters. Together we decided to do some junk modelling and made lobsters. Children used various materials e.g. milk bottles, paper mache, plastic cups, tissues, paper towels etc. Children chose the colours for their lobsters. 3 Green 4 Using the picture as stimulus, Green 4 made under water pictures of various sea creatures. We also made lobster collages. Looking at the drinking horn in the picture, we decided to make Viking helmets. Green 4 thoroughly enjoyed the Take One Picture activities.
Red 2 We looked at the picture on the whiteboard initially. We noticed it had a horn on it which we linked to our dinosaur topic. We had been talking about the features of dinosaurs and different things they could do. Lots of our favourite dinosaurs have got horns. We used a large sponge to make a horn and we glued tissue and paper on to it. To make it shiny we then put PVA onto it. We wanted it to look like scaly skin so we added bubble-wrap and painted it green. Extra pointy sponge was finally added to create spikes on the skin Red 1 After looking at the picture and playing with sea creature toys, shells, sand and water, we made lobster and sea related artwork. We arranged crab/sea creature toys on a tissue paper sea to create sea photos. We made crab/sea hats and used these to perform numeracy counting songs that we made up together. We made creatures in the sea picture using pastels and choosing where to stick the creatures. We made lobsters for a display, sticking on different materials and making the sea from tissue paper. We also made fruit related artwork, after looking at the picture and other still life pictures. We made fruit bowl pictures with pastels and choosing where to stick the fruit. We made fruit pictures by using with real cut fruit to print with paint. 4 Red Team Red 3 We focused on the spiral shape from the lemon peel. We cut out spiral shapes and also drew spirals using chalk, felt tips, crayons and paint shaving foam. We also tried to use vegetable peelers to make spirals. This the children found very difficult but the children had a good try. Red 4 The children found out that Vikings used horns to drink from. They looked carefully at the picture of the drinking horn in the painting and discussed it. Ailish s husband made a wooden horn which was used as a template for starting the sculpture. First the children moulded wire mesh around the wooden horn to make the basic shape. Next they wrapped masking tape around the wire structure. Then they added layers of papier maché around the masking tape. Finally they used mod roc as the finishing layer. After that the children looked at a range of pictures or photos featuring drinking horns to get ideas for decorating their horns. They then painted, varnished and added different materials to decorate. A string of beads were used as straps and gold material for displaying the horns.
Blue 1 After initial confusion the children enjoyed looking at the painting and were amazed at how many things they could see. They listened to the explanation of the different objects, then got side tracked by the colours and tones of the picture. I think that they were surprised at how much they could learn from one painting. They started to think about why these objects were chosen and we explained their significance. This led the children to thinking about what they would put into their picture and why. The teachers brought in their own special things and set up displays, telling the children about why we had chosen them and the importance of the colours of the back cloth. The children practiced taking photos of our display both near and far. We discussed what special things they had and some of the children brought them in and set up a display. They took the pictures and their teacher helped place the photos. It was a great activity and one that brought a lot of enjoyment to both staff and pupils. Blue 2 Blue 2 looked at the picture and had a discussion about what we could see and what we thought was happening. We answered questions related to the colours and what objects were on the table and decided that the picture could link into our topic at the time of the Victorians. Blue Team Blue 2 We had the idea that it was a table set ready for a banquet for a King and Queen and their guests. We noticed that the food they were going to eat was rich food such as lobster and they would drink wine whilst music was playing. After looking at the picture and talking about it we recreated the picture. Blue 3 The idea for our project came from the work the children were doing in science on Life Processes and animal categories. Some had made lobsters out of plasticene. We decided to use just one element of the painting, lobsters and then came up with idea of a lobster pot. We used a variety of materials to make the pot and sea creatures caught up with the lobsters. The children started the project by researching lobster pots and sea creatures on the internet. They then drew some of the creatures they found. The centre piece is a large lobster made out of Modroc, a type of plaster of paris. All the children helped either make it or paint it. The children then made one or two creatures each out of clay, plasticene, paper, and other materials. The project took some time to complete and was a real team effort. The children got very involved in the project and enjoyed all aspects of its creation. When it was complete we filmed the children talking about what they had learnt. 5