Weather paintings

Thorpe Greenways Infant School, Essex

Year 1 (4 and 5 year-olds)

The rain in Renoir's painting led to discussion about the weather in general. The children created Parisian scenes and then thought about the type of weather they wanted to portray. They worked out how they could show the weather in the skies over Paris. This involved a problem-solving process, for example 'How do you show rain?'.

Having studied the different aspects of the weather, the students looked at weather maps on the Internet and created relief weather symbols using clay. They incorporated mixed media, including oil pastels, glitter, glue and sand on colour-washed backgrounds.

Joanne Milbank (Lead Teacher)

© Thorpe Greenways Infant School. Photo: The National Gallery, London.