There's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9...
The Finding of Moses.
Some are pointing to the River Nile.
'Cos they know where the
princess got the baby from.
I'm really confused about that.
We got inspired by it
to make our own picture of it.
Proud.
The painting's called
The Princess and the Baby in the Bathtub.
Baby in the Basket.
It's called Moses.
The Finding of Baby Moses.
Just The Finding of Moses.
I know the story of The Finding of Moses.
They found the baby lost
floating in a river.
In the basket.
And they took it out.
I think it was his or her mum who put them in the river
'cos it might have been dangerous back where he lived.
Because at the time, one people was mean to everybody
and made them do very hard work and build stuff for them.
They was killing all the people who were... - Newborn.
Yeah. - Newborn babies.
Moses' mum, she didn't want Moses to be killed or anything.
So she put him in a basket
and put him on the river.
Moses got lost and some people found him.
There's a lot of ladies
surrounding Baby Moses.
There's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9...
there's nine mums and one baby.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Ten.
I already counted that one!
Ladies.
I see ladies.
I can see lots of ladies with old-fashioned dresses on.
Their dresses look a little bit wet.
This one on the right, the bottom one.
The river's just right there, so maybe they've got him straight out the river.
You can see all the creases on their clothes and everything
and you can see every small little button on the dresses.
So there's lots of different colours, like...
Red.
Yellow.
Red.
Blue.
The girl in the gold dress with the blue coming out
she looks a bit more, like, richer.
And then she's got like,
this black necklace and she's got this like, little head thing.
She's got like a diamond hanging from the bit that's going around her head.
It's like a necklace.
Yeah, but, it's for your head.
I think that's the pharoah's daughter,
the one in the gold dress,
I think that's her.
who's found Moses in the river.
There's some people pointing at the baby.
Some of them are pointing to the baby
and I think some are pointing to the River Nile.
'Cos they know where the princess got the baby from.
We got inspired by it to make our own picture of it.
We did the pond for the River Nile
and then we did the trees around it for the background.
We went in the woods
and we did some rubbing on the trees
to make it look like it's actual bark.
And then we got some pastels
and we mixed two different greens together
to make the tree leaves.
If we just did like, dots, it wouldn't really look like a tree.
If we mix them it looks more like a tree.
And we did that for the pond as well.
And we got our fingers in the paint
and we kept on putting different colours on the pond.
Some of us cut out some little flowers and then we tried doing a leaf print.
So we got water, put a leaf on with paper I think?
And then put it in the sun.
The challenging bit that I think was the leaves, because we had to try
and put them to look like a nice shape to make them look a bit better.
Necklace.
Bracelet.
Put beads.
Blue,
white,
orange.
Rolled the clay.
Rolled it on a table.
Made a gap
with a pencil.
Overnight.
I liked the paper.
The clay.
Someone in our spotted it.
Like, some of them had dirty feet
and some of them had clean feet.
And some of them had sandals on.
So you keep on noticing, like, the feet.
They've got their feet, like, bent.
Now when I look at the feet
I saw when you go up, then there's an arch in her foot.
Quite a big arch.
He even added a little vein there as well.
When we did our own models of the feet
we had to mix like, all of this... - Plaster.
plaster stuff, what goes in
and we tipped it in and then we let it dry.
The paint only went on our heels and our toes.
It wasn't in the middle because of the arch of your foot.
It was just your toes and then just your heel.
For me, I have quite a big arch in my foot
For me, I have quite a big arch in my foot.
So it was just a blank space.
It was just toes, heel.
It was really tickly and splodgy
'cos we had to step into paint,
we had to step out and walk on this paper, like this sandy paper,
and put our feet down and then lift our feet off
and put them in some soapy water.
And then our footprints used to be there on the paper.
It was really fun.
We all got split up in separate groups to do different bits of the painting.
We wanted to make waves
like an actual river.
So we put, like, pieces of paper
and then folded them up,
and then stuck them on there.
And then we painted it.
And then I think we put some mini rocks on there.
What was really funny is the baby was as big as the castle.
But I thought that might have made it look like the baby was closer.
Like the castle was really far away.
And then the baby was just drifting down.
They were like these doors opening.
And I think at one point
we put the doors the wrong way round
and we had to unstick it.
And the paint kept on dripping
so we had to repaint it again.
And then soon we ran out of that paint
so we just had to use a different combination.
We made the basket together.
And we put, like, words on it.
And it shows how the mother would have felt
and the baby would have felt.
We wrote like what the baby might have been feeling
or the mum might have been feeling.
Even if something goes wrong in your artwork, it still can be great.
Yeah, you can change it.
That's the thing about art.
When you do something wrong in it, you don't necessarily have to rub it out.
You can change it in some way so it looks right.
We drawed our family
in houses! - In houses.
It was my mother and my father.
My mum was medium and my dad was bigger.
I was the smallest, like this.
My mum now is 3 and 0.
And my dad is 33.
My roof was... my lolly stick was light brown.
I used my drawing to use black.
And my mum have a body and
my dad have a body in the picture.
My dad
and my mum
and my brothers.
I was smaller, like four years old.
I was four years old.
We choose cotton for the baby
so it can be soft.
If he wears so many clothes
he will be hot.
We wanted to see which was the coolest one.
We had bright colours and different
patterns on it.
And everyone did a piece of it.
Yellow.
Brown.
And yellow.
Because it makes them feel relaxed and calm.
I think one had an owl on it.
And it said 'Moses' on it.
It's not in English.
It's in a different language.
It's in Hebrew.
I feel proud of myself that I've been picked.
I will be excited.
I'll be excited.
I'm going there as well.
Really proud of it.
Proud!
I don't know how to describe it. - It's really cool.
Because loads of people are going to see our artwork.
I want them to know know that the baby Moses was alright.
It was a happy ending.