I was so excited to see how the children would react to the watercolor paint presented on stamp pads with large stamps. Kaia and Sebastien seemed to be very interested at the beginning but their participation waned quite quickly. Max and Bryce both had very brief encounters with the experience. I continually have to remind myself that the length of time a child spends at an activity does not necessarily equate to the amount learned. This is when video comes in handy, it allows me to look back and reflect upon what the chiildren were doing. So when I feel an experience isn't a "hit" with the children, the video lets me look back and see again what the children gained from even the shortest time of interacting with the material. The stamping also sounded very musical as the children would pound the stamps from the paper to the ink pad but there was so much more happening than I initially realized.
In the middle of Max's stamp (bang), he gets more color (bang), stamps again (bang, bang), then pauses to investigate the stamp symbol and the continues stamping away. Makes me wonder, was he noticing the shape, the watercolor ink, or the combination that made the stamp on the paper?
Kaia took a break from the stamping to explore the stamp pad more thoroughly.
Sebastien focused on the pictures the stamps made.
In the quickest 10 seconds, Bryce discovered what the stamps tasted like, showed what happens when you move the stamp side to side on the paper, and tried to balance one stamp on top of another before he then proceeded to stamp the chair. He's so quick and unpredictable!
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