The final chapter of our fairy tales
The last activity of fairy week
Which really was only a week but has taken me almost a month to write up
What a lot of fun we had with the fairies!
You can too, here are our ideas
Sensory Soup and Water Bead Tea
Glass and Mirrors Fairy Village
This last activity
Our fairy finale
Was more water play
Water and ice
Sparkles, sprinkles and sugar
Together making our very own fairy stock cubes
And our magical fairy soup
We used our water table for this activity
And some ice cubes made of coloured water and sparkly confetti shapes
William chose green for his ice cubes and Esther wanted pink
We made them together and put them in the deep freeze for a few days
The star shaped treasure ices were our fairy stock cubes
I asked Esther and William what they thought might happen
When we added them to water or water to them
And they knew that the ice would melt but the treasure would not
They were fascinated watching the ice melt
Seeing the water change colour
And the sparkly sprinkles spread out in the water
It was a magical start to our sensory play
As the sprinkles spread out on the surface of the coloured water
Some pieces sunk to the bottom
Often sequins that had clung together
We talked together about floating and sinking
And how different things behave in water
Esther and William have done so much water play in their four years
That they have a good understanding of floating and sinking, freezing and melting
Today I also wanted to talk to them about dissolving
I wanted to explore another change of state
I wanted them to watch something solid turn into a liquid
And so we added the sugar cubes from our tiny tower play
In their eyes the sugar seemed to just gradually disappear
The water became a sugar solution
They helped the sugar to dissolve by stirring and moving the water
William liked feeling the sugary sludge with his fingers
Before the sugar could no longer be felt or seen
Esther kept some solid sugar cubes
She used them to make and decorate tiny fairy cakes
Esther loves playing with small things
She pays great attention to little details
And spent ages playing with her sugar plum fairy mouse
William played at the water table
With the sweet sticky sugar water
Making pots and cups of sugary fairy tea
He poured the water from one container to another
Observing if the water was cloudy or clear
Watching the ice cubes melt
Seeing the sugar dissolve
Stirring and swirling the solution
Learning through his creative play
Fairy soup, fairy tea
This water play was great fun
It was a true sensory experience
Appealing to all five senses
And it was educational too
We have loved our fairy week
And have learned so much
We are looking forward to taking our learning forward
As we start to think about Autumn
We hope that you will join us