Earth paints

 

We have been reading about Earth Paints. Earth Paints are paints made out of crushed clay or soil and mixed with water. In the story the children found different coloured soil in the vegetable garden, compost, near a swamp, beside a stream, under the bark on the playground, clay off a bank, building site and from the river.

Aborigines used to use Earth Paints to paint pictures on cave walls or bark. They used twigs, bamboo sticks and sometimes their fingers to paint. So that the paint stuck they mixed emu and fish oil or beeswax with the paint.

Here is my earth paint painting.

African Elephant Story

Once upon a time there was an elephant named Peaches  lived with her Mother Jennie and her father Jeff. The family was very carefully about Peaches because her would not listen to them. But when Peaches wanted to play with her baby brother Ellie she would have to listen but Peaches did not like the fact that she had to listen. One day in Africa Jeff went for a walk and a lion watching him as he was eating the lion was licking his lips because he was hungry jumping in the air killed the elephant a monkey told them the news.

Jennie and Peaches were devastated about the news two later Jennie had pass away and Peaches lived with her boyfriend and son and they lived happily ever after.

                                                                  

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