Soap flake modelling
Oh, oh, oh, oh! This was fantastic! Several of us had teacher training days so we had older kids at our drop-in group today. We did soap flake modelling and it was such a hit. You can buy boxes of soap flakes at Tesco for about £1.16 each and then you mix it all up with a bit of water and some paint or food colouring (gonna use essential oils next time, too) and then you can sculpt with it. I'd recommend washable paint as food colouring can stain. It was lovely and sticky and kids and adults all had a great time with it. I've got pics as soon as hubby gets home to download them from camera. I don't know how! Apparently, it dries really hard. I was thinking it'd be nice to cut out shapes with cookie cutters and let the kids make a pretty box of hand soaps for Christmas gifts or Mother's Day or something like that. Jacky (who has signed up here but never posted - come on, Jacky, say hello!) has done this before (it was her brilliant idea) and said they made paper weights out of it. In fact, I may think of something very sterotypical (like tools or trucks and cars) for Father's Day soaps.
Why is "phonics" not spelled the way it sounds?
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