Drapo Flags

This half term, as part of our Haiti topic, we have been learning about the Haitian art of Drapo flags. We enjoyed looking at these beautiful sequinned flags and finding shapes and designs that we liked. We looked particularly at flags made by an artist called Georges Valris.

We then worked in groups to design our own Drapo flags. The designs were drawn carefully onto our flag material.

 

This week, we painted our flags as a group.

Yesterday, we used needles and thread to sew on sequins to embellish our flags. We loved the sequins on the real Drapo flags and wanted to make ours look sparkly and special too.

Next week, we will add our finishing touches ahead of the Celebration Procession with the whole school on Thursday.