Art to make mum proud

The closing date has passed for our Draw Your Mum project and here at The Courier we have been impressed by the masterpieces from schools all across the area.

Hundreds of youngsters in primaries three and four have taken part in the fun project to draw a picture of their mum, along with a short message to be published in the paper.

Don’t forget to look out for our special supplements in the run-up to Mother’s Day on March 26

St Thomas’ RC Primary in Arbroath joined in and class teacher Julie Cuthill was thrilled with the way the pupils immersed themselves in their drawings.

“The children really enjoyed taking part in the project,” she says.

“They put lots of effort into creating detailed drawings and came up with some lovely messages about their mums. The children were focused and eager to create a gift.”

The pupils were equally enthusiastic, with comments like: “We added lots of detail so it looks really like her,” and “They will feel happy and excited when they see our drawings in the paper. “It will be a surprise.” And they let us into some of their secrets for top-notch sketches: “You need to draw lots of detail with pencil. We had to try hard to remember what our mums looked like and then used bright colours to make our pictures stand out.”

The project has been so popular that some schools ran it as a fun activity for their younger pupils too.

Although entries from primaries one and two can’t be included in our special supplements, above are a few of the drawings from pupils at Arngask Primary School in Glenfarg that were too good not to be shared.

Picture: Dougie Nicolson. Pupils at St Thomas’ RC Primary School in Arbroath show off their entries to The Courier’s Draw Your Mum. Right: some of Arngask Primary’s artwork.