Ah, Valentine's Day! The day of love, romance, flowers and chocolates :)
Chook and I decided to do a little decorating for Valentine's Day. He chose some heart shaped moulds and glitter.
Using our Gelatin Sun Catcher method we created some beautiful hanging decorations. Instead of adding food colouring Chook shook some glitter into the gelatin mixture, stirred it and let it dry.
We were surprised that the glitter formed a perfect heart shape in the mould!
When the gelatin heart was dry, I punched a hole through the heart, tied some red raffia, added a little raffia bow and hung them around the house.
I kept a couple of hearts aside and made a special surprise for Chook! But you'll have to wait and see what it was :)
Chook - 37 months
Links to the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia:
- Children have a strong sense of identity: engage in a new experience and work collaboratively
- Children are connected with and contribute to their world: participate in Valentine's activities as an exploration of celebrations within their culture
- Children have a strong sense of wellbeing: use their senses to explore the world around them, acknowledged for their part in the experience
- Children are confident and involved learners: participate and have interest in the activity, encourage reflective thinking about what happened, transfer activity to dissolving other materials
- Children are effective communicators: express ideas
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They are gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI love the way the glitter turned out. We will have to try this one :-)
We do too :)
DeleteThe glitter does look lovely :) I had to look up on your other post how to make them hehe. Do they take long to dry? I think it would be a really nice science experiment that Jack would like :)
ReplyDeleteHi Kate. You'll need around four days. I have found silicon moulds are faster drying times than trays or cake tin moulds. Can't wait to see them on your 52 posts :)
DeleteThey turned out beautifully! I love the way you use gelatine to make these :-)
ReplyDeleteSuper cute. Love the glitter.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty.
Maggy
Oh,those are wonderful!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!
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