We're getting ready for our annual Kindness Bouquets event and thinking about how we can extend children's experience and learning around working with flowers.
We're getting ready for our annual Kindness Bouquets event and thinking about how we can extend children's experience and learning around working with flowers.
Our idea this week was to work with natures bounty and create floral headpieces alongside tamariki.
This intricate and fiddly work provided tamariki the perfect opportunity to develop the fine motor skills in their hands whilst developing understanding of how to work with flowers.
Having a beautiful piece of art to wear when finished was the incentive children needed to keep them going when things were difficult to do...and it sure was a tricky game to play!
The concept of wrapping the headpiece with ribbon proved to be a little bit challenging for tamariki!
"Trying to put the flowers in and it slips out. I had to try again and then I did it, I made it" said Minty.
Our children need to be, to do, and to think. It is their active participation in this world that unfolds their intelligences. That’s why making things is so great. It is problem solving in three dimensions with built-in feed-back: either what you are making works or it doesn’t. If it doesn’t you keep going until you come up with ‘workable’ solution. That’s grit in action right there (Pennie Brownlee, 2020).
"You go under, up, under, up and then put it on your hair. It was easy" said Amiria.
'I'm trying to make the head band...turn the rope like a circle" said Tahu.
Practice makes perfect!
Many tamariki came back to make another headpiece...with such beautiful results.
Over, round, pull through...repeat, repeat, repeat!
A second go round!
Making headbands out of flowers provided such a rich learning experience for children this week and the teaching team see many benefits in revisiting this again next week. Watch this space as we see just how creative children can be!
Thanks for reading.
Arohanui
The team at Bream Bay Kindergarten
