Cake, cake and more cake!

Today as part of a charity fundraiser, we had a bake sale, a baking competition (entered by about half the school) and ate an awful lot of cake. So I decided our art lesson should involve...more cake.

I must admit I'd never heard of Wayne Thiebaud before seeing him on various art blogs - perhaps I'm wrong but I don't think he's as well known here as in America. In any case, he was the perfect inspiration for this lesson.

We started with a Powerpoint and I explained that they were going to draw a cake with a slice taken out.

I let them have a go at drawing it on their mini-whiteboards and it was very interesting to see how they went about it! I then took them through simple steps for drawing the shape and they kept practising on their boards.

Originally I had planned to draw the cakes on white paper and colour with oil pastels but then found a similar lesson on ARTipelago which used black paper. This made the cakes stand out much better.

I think every child in the class was successful with their cake and, apart from a few which could do with a plate, they were all finished in about an hour!