Be Happy, It's Adar . . .
It's a fact. The children in Extended Day regularly integrate their morning Core Day experiences into the afternoon. And so just around the time of Rosh Chodesh Adar, the beginning of the new month, the children were already thinking and talking about . . . masks and costumes! We know that the joy of Purim is just around the corner.
On a rainy afternoon when we needed to stay inside, we found plenty to do. We took plain paper, markers, sequins, feathers--and voila--masks!
We've had sunny days, too. Thursday was too beautiful for words, so we stayed outside for most of the afternoon. We went to our wooden fence (below), picking at some of the loose pieces of yarn. We love to weave, but it's a lot of fun to "unweave" too! We used the strands of yarn to make belts and bracelets. Then we decided that we needed costumes, to use with our belts.
Morah Jessica was quick to respond to our need. She knew where we had a fine stash of fabric. The children went with the morah to get the basket of fabric--and then went to work, draping the cloth and tying with the belts.
We continued to play outside, fancy-schmancy costumes don't get in our way! After we were finished, we stored our costumes away in individually labeled bags--so we can take off where we left off with our costumes on another day!
Oh, the fun of costumes--hooray, Purim is on it's way!
From The Extended Day Morahs . . .(what masks or costumes will they wear?)
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