This week our program was similar. Our crafts consisted of the following: port holes (using tissue paper to make seaweed and fish, and paper plates to make boat port holes); people chains out of construction paper; ceiling kites; and pop-out cards with dinosaurs in them. Yesterday we made rocket ships! We also made light houses out of plastic bottles, and ships.
Wednesday was movie day. Instead of paying 75KMs to do it outdoors at night, we opted for an indoor day of movies, costing only 1KM. :D We used white sheets of paper to make the screen, we used the centre´s projector and we used Advo´s DVD player. (Avdo was the man for movie days/nights.) In the morning we watched ´Monsters vs. Aliens´ and in the afternoon we watched ´Íce Age 3´.
All summer I have been dying to do paper mache with the kids. Although I only did it once in my life, I always thought it would be the perfect craft for kids. It´s fun, kids can be creative, and it is very time consuming. I got my wish on Thursday and Friday.
(Ryan and ´Gimpy´ helping the kids with their paper mache)
(Me being Sid from Ice Age Three)
Thursday morning we put the paste and paper on the balloons. After letting them dry on my balcony during our lunch break, we decorated them in the afternoon. Some of them even created alien creatures. (I guess they were inspired by the movie.) That night we bought candies from ´Best´, our large grocery store in town, with the remaining money we raised from Yoga. The following day we equally distributed the candy into all of the paper mache objects. Then on Friday we ended the summer with a bang!
(Chels, Brigette, and Ryan)
(Chilly (AKA Jill) looking like a child getting excited for Christmas morning!)
Friday morning we created our memory wall in the morning, which I will discuss in my next blog. In the afternoon we took the mache objects to the park and allowed the children to take turns hitting them down, blind folded of course. Then we finally got to play my favourite childhood water game: ´Over Under´. (It is a race between two teams to see who can use the water in the bucket at the front of the line to fill the water bottle at the back of the line. The catch is that the teams can only use holey water bottles and can only transfer the bottle of water over and under themselves to their team mates, hense the name.) Then we played a quick round balloon toss with partners before having th e largest water fight I have EVER had. We used the towns water fountain to get the water (it is right beside the park.) The kids, volunteers, teen group and I had a BLAST! I must have gotten drenched at least 15 times. Not to worry though, the temperature was a high of 40 degrees so it was perfect weather to get wet.
Everyone drenched after the water fight
Avdo (Teen Group Member), Chels, Jill, Bridge, Ryan and I
All in all, our last week of programs went VERY well! I think, and I hope, that we left a positive, fun impression on the children and the community.
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