funky heart mobile project

Another project for Trenton's class for February. I had nice thick stock and loads of tissue paper squares I had prepped for my Elmer class at the NMA, punched circles from magazines for the poi fish project last year and glue sticks. I also brought in tree branches and string. The school had been enduring constant testing the month of February and the kids were exhausted. This exhaustion combined with a terrible bronchitis virus and pneumonia that struck over half of the school's populace led me to create a project where we could have a quiet afternoon playing with color and gluing. After our sheets were covered we turned them over and drew hears and cut them out. Later we worked with the branches to create a mobile and hung all the hearts with funky yarn I used to knit Tessa's poncho. Anyway, the kids thought it was fun (anything would be fun compared to tests!) but afterwards I looked at it and thought maybe this wasn't really a Montessori project -- it seemed more suited to the Reggio classroom. Regardless, the mobile still hangs in the classroom and is affectionately called the flycatcher.