We Decorate: Just to Look At!

Child's Question: Can we touch decorations?

Today I mapped the children's learning:

During our exploration of birthday decorations the children noticed that some 

decorations are just to look at (balloons) and others were decorated items that we use (goody bags).

Today we explored this further . . . 

We read "Room of Wonders" by Jayme Stone, a lovely story of a rat who collects things he finds on his walks and displays them on floor to ceiling shelves in his home.

The children know that there are some decorations we just look at, we don't touch, 

and they named a few such decorations at at their homes: 

"The scarecrow and pumpkin from Halloween, don't touch it!" Alan

"My glass picture." Jayla

"The picture of a flower on the wall"Sophie

"The teacups, can't touch them." Byron

The children were given the task of creating special table centre pieces
that will be used to decorate two lunch tables.

We researched examples and the children noticed things like candles, flowers, water in vases, and branches were used. I gave them an assortment of items and everyone took a turn to create a centre piece. Then the children worked in two groups to cooperatively create two beautiful centre pieces to be displayed at the lunch table.

An announcement was made to the other children
explaining that these decoration are only for looking at!