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Year 3, Week 6
Posted: Dec 14, 2021 by: Tara (Tara) on: Forest Blog
Today’s main objective was to prepare the colours for the children’s Stone Age painting project in class.
We looked at cave paintings, discussed pigments used and how they were obtained.
The children took soil samples and ground them up with rocks and a pestle and mortar, along with berries and hedgerow fruits.
Charcoal from previous fires was ground up as was chalk and clay but in the absence of red and yellow ochre we got creative and introduced a culinary twist: turmeric and paprika.
Fossils of these spices have been found near prehistoric cooking vessels across Europe, dating back 4-5,000 years.
We used our own foraged foliage and assembled paint brushes to explore mark making and technique.
