Every year we help the kids make a chanukah project for their families. This year we found candles at the 99 cent store and will modgepodge them with tissue paper squares and dreidels. This is the sample I made today. It looks really pretty. The only bummer was when someone pointed out the candles are actually religious memorial candles. Oops. Hope we don’t offend anyone.
I love this project! I’ve posted about it before. If you want the step by step directions click here. We made these in kindergarten today for our Thanksgiving tables. I meant for the color choices to be a bit more “fall,” but we didn’t have any brown tissue paper so now they just look festive. The most important thing to remember is to pop the balloons as soon as they feel dry. If you let them sit too long air comes out of the balloons and it all goes down hill quickly from there. The kids loved watching the pop and hearing the crackle of the balloon removing itself from the modge podged tissue paper. So much fun!
We started our own balloon bowls this morning for B week. The kids had a blast. Every child was engaged and successful. We worked in small groups for about 15 minutes per group. First step was to apply the mod podge to the balloons. I had the kids think about what size bowl they wanted and if they wanted to spend a little time covering the balloon (small bowl) or an extended time (large bowl). It was interesting to see them think this through. Plus, it’s great because now they are committed to whatever duration/experience they have. I did make one error that I will correct next time. I used containers instead of cups to tape the balloons onto. The containers turned out to be almost too big for their little hands to hold. Back to cups next time. For step by step directions click here.
