Our DT project is about make soups that are made from UK ingredients and soups made with Latin American ingredients. 

First preparing some vegetables to make purées for tasting...

Then researching recipes and online information...

Before tasting the different purées we had made, together with some different ready-made soups, herbs and spices- great enjoyment ...

Now we have collected lots of design ideas, we will start planning our recipes.

Barn Owls go Italian - Panettone and Arcimboldo

Today was our first day back after the Christmas holiday - happy new year!

For the next couple of days we will be looking at Italy and Mrs Andrew kindly brought in some panettone for us to sample at break time. Delicious!

In the afternoon we learned about the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, born in 1527. We looked some paintings he produced which were portraits using seasonal fruit and vegetables. Learn more at 

https://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/.

Here's an example of his work:

Turn it upside down to see...

We also saw a modern recreation using photography:

We cut out photographs of fruit and vegetables to make our own portraits. Here are some examples...

We also had a go at making portraits using real vegetables, which, we discovered, was pretty difficult.

What an interesting day!