Making your own drawing charcoal

05 Oct Making your own drawing charcoal

We had a fabulous day last week in the beautiful autumn sun, in the woods MAKING OUR OWN DRAWING CHARCOAL can you believe! Why don’t you have a go too? Making your own drawing charcoal

Create drawing charcoal

Full details in the video – stay to the end, it’s awesome!!

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Make your own drawing charcoal – a great lesson covering all four capacities of the Curriculum for Excellence:

• Successful learners
• Confident individuals
• Responsible citizens
• Effective contributors

Covering expressive arts (back in the classroom using the charcoal), Health and Wellbeing, Sciences, and Numeracy.

Ingredients:

1. Alder branches (try other trees, Willow, of course, we also used Beech)
2. Secateurs
3. Potato peeler/knife
4. Syrup tin or similar with a large hole in the lid
5. Nail or screw to plug the hole
6. Fire
7. Optional extras – croissants, coffee …….

Then DOWNLOAD our half-price eBook on drawing, to see how to get the most from your working with charcoal!