Julie brought the art area outside today, with lots of colourful paint and got the children who had made clay models last week to paint them.  The children have really learned a lot about clay from working with it, letting it dry and painting it.  We learned today that fine clay models sometimes break when they dry and if you drop them they smash.  The children took their models home today- a really wide variety of creations, from practical bowls with names on, to painted toadstools and even a multi-coloured sea otter made by Ewan, who was very proud of it!