We then decided that for the presentation it would be best for a couple of people from the group to present it, instead of all of us as we thought it would come across as clumsy. We will rotate these chosen people for each presentation every Friday so that most of us will get the opportunity to experience presenting the PowerPoint. Rory and Liz presented the PowerPoint this time and they got all of the important information across. I would of like a little more background information on the influential artists we chosen but others agreed to stick to more images to keep the children's focus and it did seem to work. After explaining what we was going to do to the class, they seemed excited.
Whilst the children went for their first break, we set up stations where the children would go if they were either blending or crushing up objects. We set up four stations, 2 for each. We set up the blenders and laid out the equipment the children would need to crush the objects/materials such as: hammers, scissors, cutting mats and cups. After the children returned, they were split into 2 groups that went to each station, they swapped after a while so both groups had the same opportunity.
The children really enjoyed both activities, I worked at both stations and enjoyed blending the most as it gave me the opportunity to talk to the children about why they chosen a certain colour, some children gave me the answer of it's Justin Bieber's favourite colour, someone else said it was her brother's favourite colour, I was surprised by how much thought they gave in choosing there paint colours. Some materials did not blend very well, tissue paper being one of them, cut finely it was fine but largely mixed it would not blend.
For each station, demonstrations were given in using the equipment.
Every student enjoyed the processes and all of us enjoyed joining in as well. I would argue that the students enjoyed changing the object/materials shape more than blending them up. More effort and energy went into it.
After the blending paint media's were put into cups, after lunch we began filling up the balloons. We did demonstrations on using the funnels and the amount of paint to pour in as well as using the balloon pumps. After pumping up 3 or 4 balloons, 2 popped so we lowered the amount of paint put in each as well as how much the balloon were pumped up. Because we used white spirit and oil the balloon tops were too slippy for the children to pump up so I decided to pump them up and tie them, this saved time and spillages.
Whilst one group filled the balloons, the other group made the hanging device that the balloons will be attached to, they used wire mesh, bamboo sticks, string and hangers, they did an incredible job as it held up throughout. We needed more containers to place the balloons in. Once the hanging device was finished, both groups came together in filling the balloons, so I decided to team up with Jake and Denise to fill up some other balloons that contained only dry materials such as: rice, flour and spices. We then all began to hang the balloons from the device using string. This was a team effort, some of us attached the string to the balloons then passed them onto someone else who would then attached the balloons to the device at different heights.
Once all the balloons were hung up, we did a clean up, whilst the children filled in feedback questions. The children were so excited to pop the balloons. They popped the balloons in groups of 2 so everyone could enjoy the end process, they enjoyed getting stuck in and it lasted longer than we expected.
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