Monday, February 13, 2012
As this week's workshop was so close to Valentine's it wasn't hard to come up with a theme...
...so we started by talking about what the kids knew about the origin of Valentine's, and I shared what little I knew (learnt over the previous few day :) - I'm amazed at how much I'm learning along this journey!). I loved the giggles about what happens in Japan, with the White Day that follows in March, and then the Black day in April - now you'll just have to go and find that out yourself!
We talked about symbols, and how a heart has come to symbolize love, and we chatted about colors too, and what we associate with them. We then played a hide and seek game with these cards:
We split into two groups, and each member of one group took a part of a pair and went to hide. The remaining folk had to pick the other part of the card and then go and find their partner - without revealing to anyone else when or where they discovered someone else! There was great delight in staying hidden the longest!
Having talked about symbols we made some seed collages (small overlap from last Wonder Workshop) using hearts (and other shapes if they wanted):
And the finished products:
Then we played for a bit, and then attempted to make these cool pop up heart hats out of paper plates...
which didn't work nearly as well as I'd hoped, to be honest - but they made us smile...
especially when someone gets creative and turns his hat into horns :)
Then we got down to some serious crafting...using wax crayon shavings...
between wax paper...
and some cardboard cut outs, we created...
these awesome stained glass windows!
And again, got to love the creativity...we had soaring eagles...
and this alien spaceship (ahem, yes, Aragorn is still obsessed with aliens!)
Then more playing and then onto the final craft - a sucker butterfly for someone special...
or a lollipop flower.
They made two - one to satisfy them on the way home, and one to bless someone special!
Wonderful! Just wonderful! Love these kids!
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