Under the Sea Mosaics

Today we created our own mosaics using items from under the sea.  Many of us brought items from home and we also used items that Mrs Nichol and Mrs Ikiua brought in.

The first step was to trace our tile onto a piece of A3 paper.  Then we moved the tile aside and created our pattern using sea shells, sticks, rocks, sea glass, pretend sea glass (marbles), and other items we had collected.

After we had our design ready Mrs Nichol spread some tile adhesive onto our tiles.  Our next job was to carefully transfer our design from the paper onto our wet tile being careful not to smudge the adhesive or get it onto our shells or fingers.  This kept our designs looking tidy and clean.  Some of us added little shells to fill in the gaps.

Our mosaics will dry over the weekend and then on Monday we will paint a gloss varnish over them.  We are excited to take them home, but Mrs Nichol might sneak them to her house to put on her own garden fence!  :D