Scratch Art (New Year)

This lesson worked really well and the children really enjoyed it, especially as they had no idea what the finished product was going to be!

First of all, we cut an A4 page into a square (about 20cm by 20cm).

Then everyone coloured in their square using oil pastels. I encouraged them to make it as colourful as possible and to use smaller blocks of colour.

When we had this done, I told the children we were going to paint over it in black paint (this really got them wondering what I was up to!)

We let the paint dry over the weekend. The following week everyone used a lollipop stick to scrape out a New Year message with fireworks and /or scene. This could also be done around Halloween for fireworks.

A really nice lesson and quite easy really!