The children at George Dent Nursery School, Darlington, enjoyed discovering how pattern is used as camouflage in the natural world as they created a display from animal print paper.
Planned learning intentions
To talk about, recognise and recreate simple patterns
To look closely at similarities, differences, patterns and changes
To explore colour, texture, shape, form and space in two or three dimensions
Resources
Paint ,glue ,3white paper ,brown backing paper ,paper for mounting children's work ,yellow border roll ,animal print paper (obtainable from early years catalogues) ,animal print fabrics ,books about wild life, for example in the jungle
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