Blowing colourful bubbles

Our last day of Ohana Artists was filled with more sensory experiences and some new fun activities. On our large work in progress, we add some collage materials. We did this in a different way this time. Usually we use a spatula or brush to put the glue onto the collage materials however this time, we used our pointer finger and dipped it into the glue. It was a lovely soft smooth mushy glue, which of course, some of us did not really like getting on our fingers. Some of us kept on asking for the cloth to wipe our hands clean. The collage materials that we used were feathers, shiny fabric shapes, cup cake holders and foam shapes. Our teachers hung the art work up to dry as it is still wet from the day when we put the wet newspaper and paint on it. They love the art work so much, they are even thinking of keeping it to put on the wall in the office. When you look at the finished product, you can see why they liked it so much.

The second activity was blowing bubbles with food colouring inside them. Some of us understanding how to use the breath inside our bodies and blow air out from our mouths and some of us are still learning. We had fun watching the bubbles land on our pages and then pop them. Some of the bubbles popped on their own and if we popped them, we noticed that they made an interesting design on the page. The bubbles were red, yellow, green, blue, purple and orange. Not all of the colours were strong enough to see, when the bubbles popped. Our first morning circle was a Japanese story called “Oki na kabu” which is similar to “The Great Big Enormous Turnip”. We loved listening to this story and then we asked Hisami if she could sing the “Cabbetsu song”: “Rock, scissors, paper” and the “Obento song”. Then we went to have our snack and after snack time, we read a book in English called “Colour Kittens”. It was about two kittens who wanted to make green because they loved things that are green. They had buckets of many colours of paint but no green. They experimented with red and blue but made purple; they then used yellow and red and made orange etc. Eventually they took blue and yellow and made green. They used all the different colours that they had made to paint everything in the whole world. When all of the colours mixed with one another they made brown.

We had a fun experience when we were at the park. We noticed a few rain drops and our teachers said that the sky looked light in some areas. So we stayed and then…………….oh my gooodness me, the rain started to come down continuously and we needed to run back to school. We laughed all along the way back as it was fun, getting a little wet and sharing in this unusual expereince with our teachers and our friends. When we arrived back at school, soon the sun came out. During the rest of the day, the rain came down and then it stopped and it did this many times. We danced and sang “Hot Potato”, “Hey there shakey shakey”, “Do the monkey”, ‘Where is thumbkin?” and then we did some deep breathing to calm our bodies down. Shelley read us another pop up and moving book. It was called “The Honeybee and the Robber” and it was about a bear that tried to steal honey from the bees.

Thanks for a great week of art and have a fabulous weekend! Love always Shelley, Hisami, Ayaka and Sayaka.