How We Decorate Our World? #3-Could these picture be decorations?

A

B

The children discussed whether black and white pictures could be used as decorations. We looked at the two pictures above. The children think that picture B could be a decoration and picture A cannot be a decoration. Below is part of our discussion:

Mary: Why is picture B a decoration and not picture A?
Owen: Picture A is just black, there is nothing on it.
Serena: Yeah, there are designs on picture B.
Mary: Why is picture B beautiful?
Orin: There's flowers and shapes.
Judy: Picture B is beautiful.
Mary: So if there are shapes, patterns or designs on picture A then would it become a decoration?
Children: Yes

Next, the children created splatter paint using black and white colours. They were very excited to "throw" paint onto the paper. They felt their painting looked very beautiful and should be displayed in the cubbies on the orange wall.