Making Mosaics

Today we spent a fantastic afternoon at Southwark Cathedral. We learnt about the Roman art of mosaic and we had a chance to make some mosaics of our own! The first challenge we had as 'Apprentice Mosaic Makers' was to follow instructions to make a section of a mosaic each, then we placed all of the panels together to make a larger image.

Then we each had to follow a key to make a section of a different mosaic, which was a little more difficult. We each glued the tesserae to our wooden panels, then we put them together to make two fantastic large patterns.

 The completed mosaics!