Sand Art or Salt Art (Part II)

Date: 23^rd July 2013

Day: Tuesday

Time: 3:30-4:30pm

Class: Pomegranate

Theme: Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Sand Art or Salt Art (Part II)

The children were looking forward to doing this art. Before we start, Jun Qian brought a sand art souvenir that his mum got it from Egypt. It’s so beautiful design with mountains and bird. The children were amazed with it.

Only a few children brought the salt and bottles. I poured a little salt in a bowl and let the children taste it before we start to colour it. Yu Xi, Yu Xin, Wei Ni, Kern Ee and Zhen Yuan brought the salt. Therefore, I used the salt that they brought for them to mix the colours with the food colouring.

Bee Chien: Let me taste the salt! ooh, it's so salty.

Yu Xin is mixing the salt with green food colouring

Kern Ee: I want to mix it. 

We have limited food colouring therefore, some of the salt mixture I put more while some I put less for the children. Surprisingly, the mixture turned out to have lighter and darker colour. The children were amazed with such changes too. They were so excited to try it out with a glass bottle.

I used Yu Xi’s glass bottle. Yu Xi and Yu Xin worked together as a group to start with the sand art. At first, those children who had the colour mixture in their hand refused to share their coloured salt. However, after they had seen Yu Xi and Yu Xin put the sand into the bottles, they started to volunteer to join in as well. Finally, they all used up all their coloured salt and they were happy to see such beautiful art. This actually inspired those who didn’t bring their materials today and we shall continue this on Thursday. 

Let's put it in the bottle. 

See, I can do it!

Note: Pomegranate class children are going to I-City Snow world as their field trip tomorrow. Therefore, there’s no blog update for 24^th July (Wednesday).