Today we heard a dreaming story from Nepabunna, north of the Flinders Ranges, about the magpie, crow and eagle. Urrakurli,  Wakarla and  Wildu. After hearing the story we had a go at painting one of the characters from the story using dots and lines. This was quite tricky and took us a lot longer than colouring our picture in. We used natural colours like the Aboriginal people traditionally used when they made their paints from rocks, berries, charcoal and dirt. We used cotton buds and matchsticks to paint with. The Aboriginal people traditionally used twigs, grass, their fingers and mouths. Today Aboriginal people buy paints and brushes to do their paintings. Sometimes they still use the old ways. We painted on brown paper. Aboriginal people painted on bark, rocks and in caves. Today they often paint on canvases.

Here are some of our efforts from today. They aren’t finished yet……