Zentangle

For the last few weeks we have been doing a class swap once a week to get the children familiar with their classes for next year.  I have had a group of Year 3 children who are going on to the senior school this year.  They have had 3 1/2 hour sessions so I decided to get them to make some zentangle bugs.  This was the one I made as a model to demonstrate the technique and different kinds of patterns to use:

I was so impressed with the artwork they created in this short time:

I showed the early finishers a zentangle hand I had made to put in my relieving go-bag and they created their own, tracing around their hands:

A fun and effective way to explore patterning!