One of the tiles that he was working with broke into a dozen geometric shapes. Antonio and Roy were outside in the hallway and the repair man asked them if they could put the pieces back together and make a square... which they did. Antonio asked me if we could make puzzles sometime.
This project is a response to their request as well as an important step in the process of becoming fluent with materials and growing the excellent fine motor skills which will allow knitting and crocheting to be more engaging for all of the children.
STEP 1. Draw a picture
STEP 2. Trace it with glue
STEP 3. Lay pieces of yarn in the glue until all if it is covered
STEP 4. When the glue dries, cut the picture up into pieces. Scramble them up and see if you can put it all back together!
here are some of the pictures that we made:
Dajana did this self portrait. She did the hair first and then asked me for, "something skinnier than the hair because the other parts of the face aren't as dark as the hair." We chose the purple yarn because it was the only skinny yarn that wasn't sparkly or brown,"because my face don't sparkle and the face should be a different color than my hair."
I asked Nyauria if she has a favorite animal. She told me that she likes horses best. I suggested that she draw a horse for her puzzle. Nyauria seemed a little worried,and told me " I can think about a horse in my head. But I don't draw one too much." We began talking about the shapes that make up a horse's body and Nyauria drew as we talked. She plans to "make the horse magic with different yarn colors."
Symone and Diamond both made rainbows.
Diamond cut apart the side of her paper and glued it in with the yarn, "to made it like two puzzles. on top of the other one."
I found these three drawings in Alana's cubbie...
We will work more on these later today and it will be exciting to see which of these pictures Alana continues to work with. Or maybe she'll start another one. I am constantly on the lookout for patterns in the children's work because the things that we draw and make repeatedly are important to understand and talk about.
