Return To Ogden Water

Our second visit to Ogden Water was a great success.  The weather forecast was for plenty of rain and even hail so we felt very lucky to have lots of lovely sunshine instead!  We were able to work outside all day.

To begin with, we made a special kind of lovely brown paint.  A few weeks ago Angie and Viv collected some earth from beside the reservoir.  The earth was dried out and sieved to get rid of bits of grass and lumps.  Then we ground the earth in a mortar and pestle. Everyone took a turn at grinding the earth to a fine powder.  After that we added some Gum Arabic to bind the powdered earth into paint.  We also put in some water to dilute it and a drop of lavender oil to make the paint smell nice.

There are lots of wild rabbits at Ogden Reservoir. You can see them all the time running around and nibbling on the grass.  We all know that the wild rabbits live in holes in the ground and so we thought it would be a good idea to use the brown earth paint to make pictures of the rabbits in our sketchbooks.  It was fun and everyone enjoyed looking closely at the bunnies.

Here is a selection from the feedback comments made by the children at the end of the day.