To conclude our ‘Explorers’ topic and our learning about Captain Cook and his three voyages around the world, we enjoyed our Spring art project.

We know that Captain Cook’s journey to Tahiti wasn’t an easy one as, at times, the weather made it very dangerous. After looking at some photographs of calm and stormy seas, we thought carefully about the difference in colours.

We worked collaboratively with our partner, just like Team Ant, and created some fantastic colour wraps using a variety of different materials. Some of us used colours to reflect the calmer days of his journey across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans whereas some of us decided to use colours to represent the more dangerous and stormy days.

We then did some colour mixing to make different shades of blue, green and grey before painting our own calm or stormy sea.

After this, we enjoyed carefully drawing the Endeavour (Captain Cook’s ship) using pencils and graphite. We noticed lots of the details and tried hard to include these in our own observational drawing.

We also did some observational drawings of different shells.

Finally, we worked collaboratively in small groups to create our own tie-dye. For this, we used different shades of blue and green dye to reflect the colours of the oceans.

How fantastic our art work is!