After being inspired by the “Golden Tapestry” made for the Queen’s Jubilee by the children of
the Commonwealth, I decided to embark on tapestries with grades 3 & 4 that would depict our newly established
vegetable garden at Rosanna Golf Links Primary School.

• We began by researching aerial view photographs and the children designed their tapestries from this viewpoint.
• The garden bed was painted on to Hessian then the planting was created using stitching and appliqué of
  fabric, buttons and beads.
• Final detail of birds, insects, gumboots etc. were glued on using leather scraps and pistachio nut shells.
• Students enjoyed the challenge of the project and produced some fantastic works of ‘growing art’.

Rosanna Golf Links Primary School