The Rainbow Serpent

 The book we chose for Poppins Book Nook Folktales theme was The Rainbow Serpent. We had a little trouble trying to find a book that fit the Folktale theme, so we first looked up what a folk tale was.

 Folk Tale: noun

a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.

  

The Rainbow Serpent is an Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime story originating in the Northern Territory.

 

 

We also found many other books in the same series at the library that we also read.

 

 

 

Our activities for the month were mainly related to The Rainbow Serpent book.

 

 

First we did a Dot Painting of a Rainbow Snake inside the map of Australia. You can read more about Aboriginal Art and Dot Painting on the Australian Aboriginal Art website.

 

We then followed this painting with a couple more dot paintings of Australian Animals.

 

 

 

 

 

We made rainbow snakes that ended up a little fluffy due to the wool we used.

To make these, we folded a pipe cleaner in half and tied the wool onto one end. 

Then we wrapped the wool around pipe cleaner all the way to the other end before tying off a knot to hold it.

You could also glue on wiggly eggs.

 

 

The boys made a rainbow snake from modelling clay, pushing balls of different coloured clay together before rolling it out.

 

 

From the modelling clay snake, they went on to make rainbows with the modelling clay. They made a pale snake with a matching rainbow and then a brightly coloured snake and rainbow. You can find some more great activities at Australian Folktales.

 I hope you enjoyed seeing our activities for this month and would love to see what you have been up to!

To find out more about these some of these Australian Folktales: 

 You can watch a clip about the Rainbow Serpent on YouTube.

You can watch a clip about Tiddalick the Frog the From on YouTube.

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