we cut plastic binder dividers into strips, then snipped more, then pressed them on a piece of laminate, then added another piece of laminate on top.
when the pieces of colored plastic would overlap, we would see color blending. beautiful.
actually, i thought of these as wind-catchers, but the preschoolers exclaimed things like, “oh yeah! a kite!”…so they became kites.
the first step was cutting a hole out of the center. any kind of hole. i learned quickly (and should have known!) to poke the scissor through first (thankfully we avoided hurt children).
then was the tricky work of choosing streamers and gluing them on in rainbow order. oh, tricky.
we had beautiful weather these days…great for kite flying.
a big piece of cardboard.
remaining paint from our rainbow stripes.
found objects.
3+ bottles of glue.
ahhhhhh. color wheel.
oh joy was mine.
we worked left to right following a sample chart of rainbow order to paint stripes.
this was a hard concept to grasp at first.
in order for the paint to dry by the end of the morning, we made prints with another piece of paper.
this was pretty exciting!
then we added a black R….because R is for Rainbow…
and yes, by the end of the week it was a warm chocolate brown.
the preschoolers having been showing consistent interest in cutting. more specifically, cutting yarn. more specifically yet, cutting the yarn from our weaving project.
so since it was winter white week, we had white yarn in the tub table and tied some of it to an embrodiery hoop hanging from the ceiling (where the magnet used to be).
we decided it looked like we were cutting a beard, so we added a face.
i found this yarn between two block platforms and thought, “ha! that looks like a yarn sandwich.”
when i found the person who made it and asked what he was thinking, he said, “oh, it’s just a yarn sandwich.”
of course it is.
