3 | More glue and lots of paper: In the background of the studio, when children were not creating with slime or telling stories with glue and salt, they were painting with brushes and paint rollers and collaging with strips of paper. I thought this might be a good time to introduce them to paper mâché, (that is a deconstructed version of it). Providing them with watered down glue, paint rollers and strips of paper on poster board. Children quickly began rolling on glue. But they still weren’t done with squeezing out puffy paint and adding salt. So we continued with our glue and puffy paint but instead of salt I offered them shredded paper. Once the poster board could no longer hold the weight of the materials we switched to a large canvas.

As they began adding materials to the canvas, children often pretended to make food products like cakes and pizzas, adding sauce (paint) and cheese (shredded paper). They made rain with the glue and snow with the paper. As they added paper we found other things to add too, like paper doilies and coffee filters from earlier explorations. Some children felt the canvas needed some color. So we added watercolors and pastel and white washes. One child even added dry tempera paint flakes from the paint easels. String and fabric tulle were added as well.