This is what happens when you give a set of stickers to a set of kids

Making the rounds in social networking has been this wonderful post titled, “This is What Happens when you Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids.” from Colossal. This post shares the wonderful artwork called, “The Obliteration Room.” If you haven’t taken a look at their sticker dot covered white room yet, it is worth a quick peek!

Piano Dots - Yayoi Kusama’s ‘The obliteration room’

Inspired by this work of art, I created our own mini-version of this dot art process by setting out different colors of sticker dots in our easel for the day…

The children stopped by the easel all through out the day to add a dot here or there…

This art process isn’t just visually amazing, it is open ended and it seems to reach out and invite every child in the classroom to stop by and participate at their leisure…

All day long the children kept adding dots to the easel…

And all through out the day, the children were putting their fine motor skills to work as they worked to peel off the dots from the sticker paper…

Every once in awhile, I would have a child stop and ask me if I could help them peel off the sticker. Instead, I would sit down with the child and show him or her how to bend back the sticker paper a bit to make the dot pop up and then peel it back on their own. Every child was able to do this on their own by the end of the day…

Sometimes, I would see one child off by him/herself taking time to add more dots…

And other times, I would look over and see children working on the dots with their friends…

I have to also mention that this was a great tool to use while children were waiting a turn or waiting for the other students to finish snack or when just needing something to do for a few minutes…

I was planning to leave the easel with the dots up all week, but we ended up needing the easel for another activity.  I definitely want to bring this process back into my classroom but I would like to see this process made available to the children over a longer period of time so I am trying to decide on a surface or canvas I can leave out over a longer period of time…

What resonated with me the most after reading the post shared by Colossal was that sometimes an art process takes time and the beauty of the process is that it may always be a work in progress…

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Deborah J Stewart

Deborah J Stewart

Every time I think I know everything I need to know about teaching young children, God says, "Hold on a minute!" and gives me a new challenge.

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With each new challenge that you overcome, you will find yourself better equipped and more passionate about teaching young children.

God didn't call wimps to lead, teach, or care for His children. Nope, he has high expectations, so get ready. You will have to give your very best but after teaching for over 30 years, I can tell you that it is a wonderful and rewarding journey.

Whenever your calling feels hard, just remember, 'He who began a good work in you (and in the children you serve) will be faithful to complete it.'

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