Abstract
‘Easter's always a tricky time,’ declared Mrs Footfinger of the early years department. ‘Christmas is a piece of cake with its funny camels, crib, stars, townsfolk and decorations, but Easter…’ Members of staff looked ponderous. Easter gardens always went down well, but they were hopeless to take home and fell apart at a sneeze. Fluff y chicks were hard to make, as were leaping lambs and blossoming trees, unless the teacher did most of it. Lambs and blossom also knocked holes in the school's supply of tissue paper, glue and sheets of Al. Now that the curriculum advocated the copying of famous artists, most children in key stage 2 could produce felt-penned new editions of medieval Easter wall scenes of the crucifixion and resurrection, or direct copies of Velasquez, Giotto and Fra Angelica. But the little ’uns?
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