For today’s art lesson, we were developing the skill of using a stencil outline. We started off with a poppy shaped template.

Next we cut out the middle which was a bit fiddly!

Then we practised using a sponge so that the paint was textured when we dabbed it into the stencil.

Once we’d got the hang of how to use the stencil, we added our poppies to card.

Finally we added the centres of the poppies with black pen and added chalk strokes to create the grass.

Don’t they look effective?