Our Decoration Unit so far...

We have been discussing decoration at CM. 


This unit started in January, so many Christmas decorations were still hanging around the neighbourhood. Some children reported that their houses were decorated inside and out.

Effort was taken to decorate tables for lunch, with beautiful floral arrangements.

We began to talk about other events that families celebrate and decorate for. The most common decorations that were said were banners and balloons. We each made a banner and hung it to display at Creative Minds entrance.

Also at birthday parties, the children spoke of face paint. This lead us to look into face painting around the world. They were especially interested in the tribal face paint from some African cultures. 



After observing many influences from around the world, the children were free to decorate their faces. Some even decorated their arms.








We talked about other things that could decorated your face. Some children said their parents wore glasses, but many didn't think glasses were a decoration. Although...if you added sparkles and sequin's they were decoration for sure!










Some children spoke of decorations in their house that they weren't allowed to touch. One child knew the word for this item, 'fragile'. It was also called a 'statue'. We made fragile statues that we could touch. Sophia said, 'but we have to be careful, or it will break'.




We squished a modeled the special clay into a shape. Then we added some sparkles and beads to the statue.




Elise said, 'mine is vey beautiful and fragile'.


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