The floating Island of Thilafushi is part of the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean, and is entirely made of rubbish. It is growing by the hour, as big shipping containers add thousands of tonnes of rubbish from all around the world to it every day.
It's a big problem! 5M discussed these issues today and spent the morning thinking about how we can recycle the things we use...and use less.
We made some fantastic drawings and paintings from piles of rubbish and scrap things in the classroom with some very careful observation skills.
I love the way the objects are piled up - exploring how things look when they are partly behind and in front of each other.
And these are big, bold and very confident.
We also spent some time making drawings with the opposite hand, which took a lot of concentration, but were really good fun and resulted in some wonderfully wobbly and expressive drawings.
We even did some drawings with our eyes closed - I love the bold, overlapping lines!
After break we thought about what an imaginary recycling machine might look like and what kind of thing it would make, and 5M had heaps of interesting and ingenuious ideas...a lot of them seemed to be edible like this candy floss-maker that recycles snow! We also had a machine that re-used old fruit and turned it into candy floss!
This one would be very popular at the moment - its a sunshine maker...
I love this one - its a pancake machine and I'd quite like one in my kitchen!
These drawings of the rubbish are beautiful Rachael, and the machines are fascinating - I think we could do with the sun maker with all this terrible weather! The rubbish island in the Maldives in shocking though - it makes you realise that we have to think about how much we throw away. Your lesson also shows how we can think about and explore these important ideas and issues through art - fantastic!
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