Our mosaic project began with the children choosing a design to draw onto the table, we looked through a variety of books, fairy books, jungle books and lastly we looked at "Our Special Land' book to which we had learnt a song to. We decided upon an illustration in the Special Land book and set about copying it onto the table.
The look of awe on the children's faces as the image came to be was encouraging.
Next it was time to sort out our mosaic tiles and glass into colours, this was a flurry of excited hands and made light work of the tiles, we were ready to get pasting in record time.
Tegan and Sonita were our two main contributors staying on to finish the flowing creek, we had a very interesting discussion on how creeks flow and if our creek could look like the mosaic creek!
We soon found that we did not have enough blue tiles and decided it was time to smash some more pieces for our creek. The hammer came out and again the boys made short work of this very adult task! They were very proud of themselves once we revealed the smashed tile and had to control their urge to continue smashing tiles as we had met our quota!
With our beautiful blue creek complete we are now looking forward to using our grout to fill in the gaps. The children are drawn to the table now it's makeover has begun and we can see how creating aesthetically pleasing spaces enhances their preschool experience.
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