The other day we started a new science project to learn about the points of the compass. The idea was that we step out to the terrace, little Bear makes a drawing of the view. A kind of panorama picture, where we can mark during the day where do we see the sun. The only problem was, that to make a panorama picture is not easy, because it is not how we see things naturally. Little Bear gave a go a few times, but because naturally he followed his eyes, sketched what he saw, so the first few buildings filled the space on the paper, not leaving enough space for the rest of the panorama.
We had to find a solution, which accidentally created an even more interesting project: we thought that if we cut out the buildings and objects we see, we can toss them around on the paper, cut them smaller if needed, until we get to the final result. As I wrote in a previous post, we have absolutely no craft papers at home, instead we took old magazines and looked for larger spots of certain colours, cut them out and et voila, we have now craft papers. We used those also for the panorama picture.
The creation of the picture allows the kids to talk and learn about sizes and distances, perspectives. We discussed with little Bear which objects should be on the picture (all the large ones plus the cranes including the counterweight blocks at the end! :o)
For each object if it is smaller or larger than the one beside, whether one is closer or more distant from us and therefore which one is covering the other on the paper. When we were happy with the result, just glued it all on a A4 sheet. This panorama picture creation became an art project on its own. Watch out when we continue and it becomes a science project, when we go out sun spotting!
This is the panorama view which we tried to recreate:
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