You, Me, Us

There's an art competition

and we decided to give the kids a chance -

and enter them.

The competition is called "You, Me and Us".

We decided to let the kids draw themselves...

The idea was to celebrate

Indigenous and Non Indigenous Australians

living together...

"You, Me and Us". One of my students is a blue eyed blondie

and his best mate

is a gorgeous brown eyed, dark skinned boy.

Watching them with arms around each other

was the inspiration for the drawings.

They really do represent

You, Me and Us.

Some of the kids spent a lot of time on their art

and others...

rushed to be finished in time!

They kids have all really enjoyed the art...

They have found new strengths. The girl who did the next artwork

handed it to me for judgement...

and I gave her a huge list of things

she needed to do I didn't even praise her...

I can't believe it.

So cruel!

When she came back to me

the huge smile on her face warmed me.

She'd heard me.

She'd adjusted her art...

and while her drawing may not be a masterpiece

she was so proud of herself!

I'm proud of her, for that.

Look at the hairline on this one... We're sending the art off to be judged in a couple of weeks.

Note: I didn't touch their art

not even the cutting out

(Though my cutting is as bad as their's!)