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  • Kia Ora Everyone


    While we all stay at home keeping safe and looking out for each other in our family, you may have the opportunity to organise some fun time for the rest of the family.  Get them involved in drawing shoes! This could even perhaps count as being evidence for your holistic report perhaps under  ‘Compassion - awhinatanga’ where you are setting up opportunities to help and support your family by doing some fun activities (take a photo of everyone drawing to support your intent)


    Plan and do





    Go and find five different shoes that your family wears and set them up as a display in the lounge or dining room as a still life.  

    • Make it a fun time and invite the rest of the family to have some downtime with you while you practise your drawing skills. 

    • You become the teacher and tell them that you are looking for them to focus on the outline shape being accurate and the proportion of the shoe pieces being correct.  As an ‘extra for experts’… they can then practise shading in the shoe to show the shadows and highlights

    • You could make it a family competition and become the judge.

    • You could have a shoe of the day set up or arrange a group of shoes and have them there for the week. 

    •  Each night for twenty minutes you could invite the family to join you while you practise drawing them.  

    • Experiment using pens, pencils and other drawing mediums to compare your outcomes


    You can use the pages in your Visual Art diary for drawing and when we get back to school, I’ll photocopy your work and we can add it to your shoe composition.  That way, the drawings that you do will be meaningful and count towards your final assessment.


    I’ll post my display of shoes and my husband’s attempts on your  MHJC pages at the beginning of Week 5.


    Nga mihi mahana

    Mrs N