little purple alien
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
When our children were creating hats with their grandparents just before Melbourne Cup Day, some made headpieces with antennaes and they said they were aliens.
The children loved it so after a discussion about what an alien looks like, we put out materials for more children to make alien head gear.
The only catch was we asked them to follow some simple instructions. At this later stage of the year most children recognise their numbers up to 10 so they didn’t need verbal instruction.
We left the creative side up to them and the results were as different as each child! It was interesting to see how the children interpreted the instructions. Some read it as; 1 feather, 2 straws, 3 pop sticks, 4 patty pans and 5 sticker dots, while other interpreted it as 5 single objects.
We staged a fashion parade, then popped on a song;
“Little Purple Alien” by Scott Browne …
… and away they went, dancing and bopping to the the great music!
The next time we played the song (we have found the children love to hear, sing and move to the same music time and time again), we gave them some different props which gave it a new angle.
They had to figure out the left hand gloves from the right hand gloves but once that was sorted they could hold the props and move them to the music how ever they liked.
They made very cute one eyed purple aliens!
As the children continue to be interested in purple aliens we pulled out the salt ceramics (see our post on salt ceramic chickens post on October 16th for the recipe) …
… and again, the resulting models were widely varied.
A few days later the children collected some styrofoam balls and coloured pom-poms from the invention table …
… and created different alien creature …
… sooooooo cute!
