A is the one that gets the essential stuff done - books the room, handles the money etc..
Me, I'm the hired help :)
My job is to be creative and work out the activities to follow, with very helpful input from the others. We alternate between science one week and History/Geography the next, the focus being on hands on activities, with follow up worksheets to take home and do afterwards.
The challenge is to make the activities fun, but also covering a broad age range, so it has to lively and engaging for the young ones, but demanding enough for the older ones... It also has to be frugal, everyone brings something to contribute and then it's only the cost of the room hire to sort.
The first week was an easy one for me, a nice tried and tested activity that I knew they would all enjoy: volcanoes...!!
We started by making volcanoes from half an old juice bottle and some home made play dough, then of course the fun bit - making them erupt..! Using of course the ingredients J and I used for the Mustafar project. Awesome fun..!
They all then went on to do paintings of volcanoes, some of which were made 3 dimensional using some left over play dough...
This is J's, which I love
And a couple of the 3D ones some of the others made:
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