Art - Salt & Water Colour Painting

For the art activity today, the children explored some new media, white glue and salt, to go with the water colour. First, the children painted white glue with a brush or a squeeze bottle on their paper.












Then, we moved to the next station to put some salt upon the white-glue design we made. 

The children gently apply water colour upon their designed patterns. The children enjoyed and fully engaged in this art activity.

Moreover, it was impressive to watch the children moving along through the stations in their own pace, politely asking for art supply and waiting for their turns patiently.

The children had a chance to test and to combine multiple media in art to create this interesting pop-out texture upon their paper!  

Art - Hello, My Name is ...

The story, "Hello, My Name Is Ruby" by Philip C. Stead, was read to the children today. Ruby, a fearless little bird in the story, looks for a friend and starts her adventure in a very big world. Along the story, this little bird keeps introducing herself to make new friends.

"What is a name?" one of the birds in the story wonders. The children in the Water Group pondered as well. The children understood that our names are for others to call us; also, we can introduce ourselves by our names.

For art activity today, we used crayons to write down our name. Then, the children were encouraged to paint and to decorate their name with water colour.

We explored these two art media and observed how crayon and water colour interacted upon our paper.

Art - Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon!

The coming Monday will be the Mid-Autumn Festival in Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese cultures. It is a harvest festival held on the 15th of the eighth month in the lunar calendar. People celebrate and admire the beautiful full moon the Mid-Autumn Festival with family members and friends.

Water group children used multi-media (pompoms, coloured tissue paper, felt and construction paper) to make a collage full moon together.  

The children drew themselves and talked about what they want to do with friends on the moon festival.

A collaborative art work water group made