Had a group of day campers in the YRC who had been leaning about transportation throughout history. We read a few stories with transportation themes. I read a selection from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The part about the other schools arriving in the giant carriage and ship. Then we had crafts. I had convinced my supervisor to do two activities and let the kids choose, one which she had found including paint. I was so excited! This was such a fun project! We dipped hot wheels cars in paint, then drove them over the paper, the tracks creating an abstract art piece. IT was awesome! A word of warning: if you ever do this activity, don't use any cars that are the ones that go automatically when you rev them up by rolling them back. We learned that the hard way when one kid loaded his car wheels with paint, picked it up, and the wheels quickly spun a lovely green splatter pattern all over the table and the girl standing next to him :)
The other activity was making flying saucers out of paper plates. Then they had to get them to fly to the landing pad. We had a blast and all went well (except the splatter incident of course). Then we had to spend forever cleaning up, and before I knew it the day was over. We were exhausted!Did not get any of the work done I had planned on. Oh well.
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