I have been trying to build our
activities around particular themes this year.
This month we were focusing on the sky and the weather. As Wugs has just learned the word for “sun”,
it felt appropriate to create a sun-shaped suncatcher.
What we used:
Contact Paper
Coloured Transparent Paper (red and yellow)
Coloured Tissue Paper (red and yellow)
I cut up the paper into large squares and put it into the tub.
When we attempted this activity
previously (see here), we attached the contact paper horizontally to the
table. This time I attached it vertically
to the balcony glass door. This worked much
better as it reduced the chances of Wug’s hand and arm getting stuck to the
contact paper. I put the tubs of
coloured paper on a chair near the balcony door and left him to play. He engaged with it straightaway sorting out
the tubs of cut up paper. Although I
offered him both yellow and red (anticipating that he would stick both to the
contact paper and overlap to create orange) he seemed quite specific about only
wanting the yellow coloured transparent paper on the contact paper. He added to the contact paper over a number
of hours (without any instruction from me) until his bath time when I took the
paper off the door, backed it with a large sheet of tissue paper and cut out a
sun shape.
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