Our art session this week focused on Willow Style painting on plates. We linked this to our class novel The Explorer and selected three key elements of the story such as the plane, the Amazon river and an animal featured in the story such as the sloth. Next we drew these onto our paper plates faintly so that we could then go over them with a fine brush and ink.  The children really tried hard to keep to the outlines with super fine brush strokes but it proved a difficult job! The final plate designs were all unique and when put together, looked very effective.