Day: January 21, 2024

SLJ – Connecting with your whenua step it up

Today for the SLJ I did the nature collage. I’ve wanted to do this task for awhile but I am stuck at home with COVID and not feeling well at all and because today is the last day to upload I  thought I would do it in our backyard.
I didn’t think there were many interesting thing as we don’t have many flowers, just a lot of trees, and our veggies garden is overgrown but when I used the macro lens in my mums phone I actually found a lot of interesting things! I zoomed in on tiny flowers, interesting leaves, rocks, tree bark and lichen, seed pods, fruits, and even spider webs. Also my cats eye! We’ve got a lot of cicadas in our backyard at the moment but unfortunately I couldn’t find any close enough to photograph. The picture at the end is my view and here is a paragraph about the history:
I live in North New Brighton close to the beach in Otautahi and although I’ve lived on this property since I was born it’s the second house I’ve lived in. Our first house was badly damaged by the Christchurch earthquakes so it got bulldozed down and we built a new one! My dad took my twin sister Indi to Bottle Lake Forest for her nature walk (she doesn’t have COVID) so her paragraph and photos might be a bit more interesting but I did my best. Here is the link to see it in higher resolution too.

 

and my view

What is your favourite image in the collage?

SLJ – Cool characters kick start

Hi today I did the Cool characters kick start. You watched a video about nature art and a video about cartoon characters then you put them together. You got a piece of nature and glued it on something and then added arms and stuff to make it look human. Here are mine :

They are little characters from the forest. They are called Lewis and Lucy. They are leaf people. Emilie