In year 2, we have been enjoying our history topic that is all about the Great Fire of London. We have looked at what the houses were like in 1666 and we drew our own.
Did you know that the houses were built with different levels with the bottom level being the smallest? This was so that more houses could fit in. They got bigger as they went up and the bit that sticks out is called a jetty.
We used black pen to draw the outline and then created the beams using black paper. We also learnt that windows in 1666 were very expensive because they were made out of lead. As they were so precious, if someone moved house then they would take their widows with them!
After we had created our houses, we used poster paint to experiment with different colour mixing to create the fire. We looked at images of fire and saw that the inside of the fire is much lighter than the outside. We created the fire effect by adding a tiny bit of red to our yellow for each layer of our fire.
We think that you'll agree that the image of the fire that we have created looks great! Imagine what it would be like to be amongst all those burning houses!
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