Fabulous fruit sculpture project

In Art club this half term we have been looking at the shape and form of fruits, some exotic. The children began by drawing the fruit one at a time with linear (line) drawings. To develop their hand and eye co-ordination and examine the shape. The following session we 'drew' the fruits with scissors (no pencils allowed) to cut out shapes of the fruit for a collage. Splitting the group into two they produced two tissue paper collages of a basket of fruit. (Picture to follow). However, we recently began forming the 3D form fruits from salt dough. These were then painted as shown above.

I realised cream of tartar and a bit of vegetable oil is brilliant in salt dough to stop it cracking and going dry. However, the fruit still took nine hours and counting  to dry out!!