Great Fire of London Wall Display - London Bridge, Buildings & River

Creating collage houses, the River Thames and London Bridge to make a wall art display for the topic The Great Fire of London. The first display depicts a range of houses and other buildings, boats and the river. The second display focuses on London Bridge with boats.

This is a step by step guide to creating these displays, listing the materials and skills that would be used with some useful internet links included. There is a picture of a finished display created with a Year 1 class.

There are templates of London Bridge arches and buildings as well as several boats that can be photocopied and decorated or used as inspiration to draw your own versions. The illustrations on the templates have been inspired by seventeenth century depictions so are historically accurate. The templates can be put together to fill any size display board.

The file is a pdf for easy of download.

Keywords: Art; history; collage; painting; fire; London; 17th century, Great Fire of London, London Bridge, River Thames

Activities: Scissor skills; drawing; painting; gluing, collage