An image of an orange Jupiter in a picturebook led to children wanting to find out more about this fascinating planet, taking them on explorations which lasted around six months as they conducted research and staff linked their interests to scientific experiments and new art techniques.
It all started when a group of two- and three-year-olds at Little Barn Owls in Horsham, West Sussex shared a fiction book that had a picture of planets in it. ‘Some of them showed that they had some knowledge of planets,’ says atelierista Amala Andrews. ‘One of the children commented that we all live on Earth and then we started to look more at planets, before children began to focus on Jupiter.’
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