The Reception class's Ark

I have been working with Amanda (dance artist), the reception class and Miss Spiers during this term on their learning journey about Noah and his Ark.
The Ark is almost finished now - on Friday I was glueing the different parts of it together, and when I come back after half-term I will finish off the last bits. It's quite complicated as it will be able to fold away (so it won't take up too much room when it's not in use).

We have all worked on the ark by designing its shape, choosing its colours and drawing some of the animals that will be sheltering in it.
All the children in the reception class voted on the colours that they would paint the ark. I thought they'd probably choose to have a brown ark and maybe a red roof, but what colours do you think they chose? ..... Yellow and pink!
These colours reminded me of a Battenburg Cake, so in case you don't know what a Battenburg Cake looks like, here is a picture of one -our ark may look a bit like thiswhen it's all finished!

I have also included some pictures of the class painting the flat pieces of the Ark and what one side of the ark looks like with the pictures of animals glued in place.

Louise Bristow (visual artist)