Team Art

We had a lovely afternoon today. We could choose which art activity we did and in which class. We were making an art gift to take to the West Harbour Gardens residents when we go there to sing. The choices were all so interesting that it was hard to choose.

The children who went to Room 5 made decorations by up-cycling milk bottle lids, they looked very cool. In Room 7 they chose to make Lei. Room 8 used clay and cookie cutters to make their gift and in Room 6 we made 2 different types of Christmas trees.

We chose our pipe cleaner colours, chose 5 pieces of paper, measured, glued and then, of course, added some 'bling' to make them look sparkly and beautiful.  Of course, I got so busy I forgot to take photos of our second style of tree...oh well, we might get to make one that we can keep for ourselves at some other time. This exercise was making something that we are going to give away to make someone else feel happy.

We think our trees look very beautiful and we hope the people we give them to think so too.

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