How To:

• The students read 'The Best Beak in Boonaroo Bay' by Narelle Oliver, and discussed how the pictures were created. Narelle Oliver used Lino cuts and watercolour paints.
• Students were given different materials to make prints with paint. Bottle tops, filters, cardboard Form Cuts and toothpicks.
• The class came together and we made a chart of all the different print marks that we made.
• We discussed how we could make the marks into birds from the book as well as plants, water etc from the story.
• The students used the different tools and black paints to create a scene from 'The Best Beak in Boonaroo Bay'. When the prints were dry Ocaldo paints were used to give colour to the pictures.

Materials

Cartridge Paper

Black paint

Printing tools, bottle tops, filters, toothpicks, cardboard Form Cuts

Ocaldo Blocks

Reference: Linking Art with Literature Kate Hart