Art+room+murals

Grade 3/4 Art murals
In the art room we have a large 'Fashion through federation' wall mural which looks like it has been their for about 20 years and was definitely not made by students... So I have made the executive decision to replace it with something more meaningful which will be created by students to represent our school and our country.

I have given this responsibility to the two Grade 3/4 classes to each create their own mural and then staff will then choose which mural will replace the fashion thing... However, they are both coming along so well I'm considering putting them both up on the artroom walls or at least finding a place for the second mural.

Both classes came up with very similar ideas! Both wanted the school logo with Australian animals and the valley in the background and each has the aboriginal and Australian flags. The difference being one class has two students throwing a boomerang to one another (I didn't point out that boomerangs generally return to the thrower...) and the other has aboriginal people dancing around a fire.

The two classes are working together so well! It's amazing to see them getting along and compromising and developing new relationships (which will also help with my sportsmanship goal!). I am so happy to have given this project completely over to the kids - I have steered them in no way, they have worked together to come up with ideas and are coming up with some amazing pieces of artwork! I am looking forward to posting photos of the final murals!