The starfish children have been having some very gloopy and creative experiences the last two weeks.
They started off with some boiled corn flour, water and food colouring in red, blue and yellow. It was thick and slimey and absolutely wonderful to touch. Two of the children stayed for the whole 45 minutes just enjoying the sensory experience of swirling it all about.
A few days later the staff set up a ‘swimming pool’ in the water trough filled little toy people and boats to swirl around in the silken, glossy and slippery swimming pool of soap slime. This type of slime is made by whisking pure soap flakes with warm water and then leaving it a couple of days. The soap and water starts to gel together and has the consistency of a gelly soap and a gloss to it like cream shampoo. It slips and slops as they try to hold it, but it always slips through their fingers!
As well as tooth brush painting, sticking scrunched up tissue paper on parrots, another visit from Hamlin the hamster and of course more and more singing, we have been doing some great Jungle Collages.
They have been made from stamping paint and sticking painted shredded paper onto the frames and putting jungle animal cut outs on top. We have had so much fun sticking it all together and now they are all displayed for our parents and each other to see. And our gardening fingers seem to be getting better. We have successfully sprouted radishes and sent them home with proud children to continue to grow with their parents. We look forward to hearing if they grow into proper edible radishes!
