Africa..other ideas.

So many possibilities come to light for each topic and some might be great ideas but just won't work within the timescale, or alternatively, some can be quick fillers for a spare afternoon activity.

In the case of Africa, there was the original idea of the necklaces - using a paper plate, which at the time, the kids loved, but they were much more excited about the next project of the 'real' bead making....











While I was away, my boss took over for a few days and work on some Egypt projects with the kids. They got really into the idea of how pyramids contain treasure and maps and they had the chance to make their own styles of them. And they also learnt something about Egyptian mythology too. Sadly, I don't have any of these pictures, but it is worth noting to remember.








I had been thinking of extending the project and making Egyptian style bangles upon my return, but the gold paint was far too strong for the class to have used. it would, however, have been a great project to do as they would have loved to decorate the bracelets, made simply from toilet rolls.

Hina Matsuri

 It's the Japanese Doll Festival.
Each household that has a young girl will often display a set of doll (boy and girl) in order to wish good luck for the future marriage of the young daughter.

Specal Chirazushi is made and the celebration of Sakura (Cherry Blossoms), along wit the dolls goes hand in hand with this Springtime festival.

 To make the Cherry Blossoms, we tried blowing watered down brown paint and adding various pink things like tissue paper and dot paint pens.

Our Hina Matsuri was a photo shoot with these, all made by the kids themselves. We printed out lovely chiyogami paper and made a collage for both the girl and the boy. They loved this!

Our dolls were made from simple toilet papers and polystyrene balls. Such a simple activity, yet they all had fun decorating with tissue paper, beads and glitter galore