making reindeer's with Primary 2

 Primary 2 outdoor education reindeers:

Pupils comments on each step they took to create their Christmas reindeer's

·        Step one – We went along the river to find sticks for the legs and the body of the reindeer's.(LS)

·        Step two – we came to school and sawed up the pieces of wood for the body and legs.(HD)

·        Step three- We glued the legs into the body with a hot glue gun (DH)

·        Step four – we painted our reindeer's a colour we choice, I choose gold (DH)

·        Step five – We used pinecones and sticks to make the head and antlers. We used a hot glue gun to glue them on to the rest (ZH)

·        Step six – we are painting gently on the pinecone heads. We got to choose our colours. I picked gold (LS)

·        Step seven – we used the hot glue guns with Miss White to glue on the head to the neck. (ZH) 

The pupils showed an interest in continuing to make their own reindeer's from last weeks Outdoor Education lesson. The pupils painted their reindeer's body different colours with one pupil saying "making mine metallic gold" when another said “I am going to paint mine brown with a blue spot for the saddle which will go on Santa's sleigh". The pupils then glued a pinecone for the head and sticks for legs and neck with support of the teacher. The pupils took it in turns to use the cutters to make two antlers for the reindeer's ears. After the pupils painted the heads and antlers.

As we got to school we discussed each step and I asked which one they liked the most. All of the pupils said that they enjoyed making their reindeer's and that "painting the body and head" was their favourite.