Food murals

The culmination of our previous investigations into food origins was to create a mural whereby pictures of food - raw food, not recipes- were pasted to one of four  backgrounds. An orchard, a vegetable farm, an animal farm and an ocean or river.

making an orchard

The students first had to engage in some research, finding appropriate pictures of food from magazines, and deciding which of the four origins they belonged to. They rapidly picked up that cookies and pizza were combinations of food, but that eggs, sugar, flour, tomatoes and cheese, some of the components of these favorite foods, these were the pictures we were looking for.

adding fruit to our orchard trees and bushes

meat and dairy farm foods

glueing food onto our ocean background

Next, each class painted a mural of one of the scenes, their choice (I had to talk some of them into oceans however, for some reason that seemed less exciting and certainly the plainest picture - blue blue blue!) and everyone cooperated. We cut out some tree trunks, suns, leaves, farmhouses etc and glued those on.

Finally, as many food pictures as could fit were glued onto the right scene, and don't they look fantastic! Our classroom looks like an Eden-like world of plenty now, and what fun everyone had doing it!

Our food mural - land-based farming

the artists survey their mural