Oct 14, 2009

Shaving foam fun!!!






After the soap carving, I sprayed some shaving foam on the kitchen island. Sam smoothed it out and set to work drawing and writing in it! Shaving foam makes a wonderful palette for practicing writing letters and numbers!! It isn't sticky at all!! It smells LOVELY! It is surprisingly easy to clean up! It just dries and vanishes on clothes. It wipes up easily from the kitchen counter/ table!! You could put it on a tray if you preferred.

In the past we have used a corn starch/ cornflour mix but that is VERY messy to use - but shaving foam is really easy to clean up :)

Another thing to try - add some white glue to shaving foam and use it to make puffy 3d pictures of snowmen etc for Christmas cards/ Christmas/ wintery pictures!!! They stay puffy!!! :)

Soap carving....





We have been continuing our project on China, and today we learned about Ancient Jade statues. We looked at many of them online as well and also talked about the more modern Jade Canoe at Vancouver airport - which we have actually seen and had our picture taken with.

As our craft today we carved our own statues out of soap to give us an idea of what it would have been like to carve the Jade statues. Abigail carved a snail and then she carved a face. We watched videos on youtube of soap carving, to see how it is done, and then they went to work!!!

Sam was carving an animal and then his soap broke and he started carving a teepee and then he just decided to carve the soap away totally! He really enjoyed the technique of carving though!!!

At first Abigail found it quite difficult, and her first bar broke in two - but then she got the knack and her second one went really well! Her third one - the face - was REALLY good!!! :)

This was such a great craft and a fun way to pass some time - so cheap too :) The soap crumbs swept up very easily!!

number leaves...


Sam using his number leaves this morning. These are leaf shapes cut out of coloured card stock with numbers written on them. I laminated them. Sam uses them for basic math like number order (forwards and backwards), basic additon. We also play games such as 'hunt the number'. Sam also has a number tree to put the leaves on.

You could do sets of the leaves and play 'snap' or matching games too.
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