Winter shapes

Investigate some of the features of Winter. Use paint and potato printing to create a version of the painting ‘Waterloo Bridge’ by Monet.

Teaching Outcomes
To create own versions of the painting ‘Waterloo Bridge’ by Monet.
To look at the real Waterloo Bridge and describe its features.

Children will:

• Create own versions of ‘Waterloo Bridge’ by Claude Monet.
• Talk about and use colours, patterns and shapes.
• Use Google Earth to locate Waterloo Bridge and describe its features.

• Monet quotation
• Painting instructions

• Black A3 sugar paper
• Masking tape
• Colour-mixing palettes
• Potatoes cut in half, with half of each cut into an arch shape
• Vivaldi’s ‘Winter’.

Google earth
Waterloo bridge by Monet from nga.gov
The world's most famous bridges from travel.cnn.com