Rainbow Tree

If there was one thing I really wanted to achieve while teaching at this summer school, it was getting something on the wall that the children could say was theirs. The school had recently moved locations, so the art room was bare (both in things on the wall and in supplies). To inspire the kids I showed them a picture of a wonderful display I spotted on Pinterest here, of a tree design covered with coloured circles decorated by the children in the school.

Of course my kids didn't want to colour in circles, they wanted to colour in rabbits and dolphins and flowers - so be it. We also discussed colour mixing, so we looked at using different shades of the same colour on a circle, and hopefully having this on the wall will give them a reference when they're trying to remember their colour wheel. Nothing like as good as the original, but not bad for our little Bulgarian summer school.