Showing posts with label mirror. Show all posts
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Exploring Paint on a Mirror

Oct 10, 2013


Today's activity is part on an ongoing series, Exploring Reggio with The Imagination Tree, An Everyday Story, One Perfect Day and Twodaloo


Through observing my children in their play habits and using notes from Maddie's preschool as confirmation, I'm well aware that they both love sensory activities and painting. 

Using this weeks theme of mirror play, I set up a simple Invitation to Play with very limited materials. This time I wanted to see what they would make of just these materials and whether they would engage with their reflections. I thought perhaps we might work on some oral language development for my toddler, focused around face and body parts, but as it turned out, the kids had different ideas to what this activity would be about. You can see how it panned out (and all the fabulous learning) below.

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