This may look daunting, but just wait, I will explain. 🙂
I set up a lavender rhododendron, purple and pink tempera paint (washable), two different paint brushes, green and brown crayons, small rectangular paper and finally blue play dough. I also made sure there were half filled jars of water with rocks at the bottom for weight. (No tipping 🙂 )
The idea behind this is for the children to explore a provocation with a multiple layer of artistic materials. Due to there being more materials to work with and the table being much more busy than with just one provocation, I like to have a class meeting to inform the children of items they will use. Then I like to generate a discussion with the children to find out from them what kinds of ideas they have for those materials.
Here are some ideas we came up with:
* making flowers out of the dough and painting the dough.
* counting the round dough and writing the numbers with the crayons and then painting over the crayon.
*painting the flower and using the dough as a name tag or marker for the kind of flower each person paints. Then using the crayon to add the stem and leaves.
*making flowers out of the dough and using the paint to outline the flowers. After that adding the stems and leaves with the crayons. Asking Ms. Heidi if she would write our words for our pictures. 🙂
*Ms. Heidi can write our words for our stories. 🙂