Postcards from Big Kids Club!
Following hot on the heels of the story we read a couple weeks ago, The Day the Crayons Quit, came the sequel: The Day the Crayons Came Home. The story is told through a series of postcards sent home by various lost and forgotten crayons.
Pea Green Crayon, for instance, was left by the pool after being taken on holiday last year. He writes to tell us that he is beginning his long trek home. Furthermore, he is tired of being referred to as Pea Green Crayon because nobody likes peas. Instead, he has renamed himself Esteban the Magnificent!
Inspired by the crayons’ postcards, the children made some postcards of their own.
The color of the week was green, and so the postcards were constructed with different shades of green paper which the children decorated themselves with dinosaur stamps.
Some of the kids decided to write their postcards (with a bit of help, of course) to their moms.
Maksim, one of our regular Big Kids, decided to take on a new identity just like Pea Green Crayon: he wrote his postcard as Batman.
He decided to address it to his supposed arch nemesis, the Joker – quite a nice gesture from Mr Batman, I thought.
From his postcard:
“Dear Joker,
I did something to you. I put Joker gas on you.
I am going to vacation in Antarctica.
From,
Batman”
While I definitely had some fun making postcards with our Big Kids, I was even more excited for our Purple Week art project where the kids made “stained glass” galaxies out of coffee filters. My goal for this project was to encourage them to experiment with some color mixing. Different saturations of blue and red food coloring will produce exciting different shades of purple, which were used to stain the coffee filters.
The great thing about this activity is that it is simple and allows the kids to learn by trying it themselves. The project piqued the curiosity of Emily, a little girl who is not quite old enough for Big Kids Club just yet. She joined in and made a beautiful piece of art to take home as well!
Stay tuned for some spooky Halloween-themed art projects next, inspired by the color orange!
