Greedy Cat Paintings

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Our big book this week has been the wonderful Joy Cowley story, 'Greedy Cat'. On Friday afternoon we began our Greedy Cat paintings. We explored how to mix and blend colours to create different tones. Next week we will add the details to our paintings - watch this space!

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