Sibilly School's WOYC coordinator, teacher Jasmin Hart, shows students how to creat bead art during Week of the Young Child activities at the school on April 12, 2016.
Joseph Sibilly Elementary School's K-3rd grade students continued their celebration of Week of the Young Child (WOYC), April 10-16, 2016, with a day of Make & Take activities on Tuesday, April 12. According to Jasmine Hart, Sibilly WOYC coordinator, the arts-and-crafts activities were designed to show students and visiting parents fun, low-cost ways to have fun as a family. The activities also allowed students to showcase their creativity.
Guided by their teachers, students moved between a number of stations set up outside on the school's pavilion to enjoy face painting, making healthy snacks, bead art making, animal mask making, and balloon art. At the healthy snacks station, Chef Latoya Freeman of Virgin Spice Catering, taught students how to make a fun snack called "Goldfish In A Pond" using rice cakes, cream cheese, goldfish snacks and raisins. Chef Freeman said the hands-on activity encourages healthy snacking and teaches children how to make a complete snack. "They have their protein, which is made up of the raisins; they have dairy, which is the cream cheese; and they have the starch, which is the goldfish along with the rice cakes," she explained.
Another healthy snack station included the making of "Mummy Bones." Students received a single flour tortilla, upon which they spread peanut butter and grape jelly. Next, they added a handful of granola over the spread and completed the snack by inserting a slice of banana. The tortilla wrap was then closed and secured with a toothpick. Students could be seen enjoying the yummy treat!
Face painting was conducted by a parent who volunteered her time and Ms. Hart spearheaded bead art. Retired Sibilly art teacher, Mary Louise Lauffer, who volunteers at the school every Tuesday since her retirement in 2013, stopped in to help students create animal masks to wear at the big WOYC culminating parade on Friday, April 15.
"The masks are scratch art, where there has been a black paint applied over a colored paper and the children scratch off the design of their masks," Ms. Lauffer explained.
Sibilly School continues WOYC celebrations on Wednesday, April 13 with Soca Aerobics, a trip to the Children's Museum and a viewing of the "Jungle Book" movie at the Market Square East Theatre.
| Student enjoys bead art making at WOYC activities at Sibilly School on April 12. |
| Students are wowed by ballon art presentations at WOYC activities at Sibilly School on April 12. |
| Balloon fun at Sibilly School WOYC Make & Take activity on April 12. |
| Face Painting during WOYC activities at Sibilly School on April 12. |
| Student displays his "Goldfish In A Pond" snack along with Chef Freeman at WOYC actitivites at Sibilly School on April 12. |
| Goldfish In A Pond healthy snack. Yum! |
| Students make "Mummy Bones" at WOYC activities at Sibilly School on April 12. |
| A completed "Mummy Bone." Yum! |
| Roar! Sibilly School students create animal masks to wear at WOYC culminating activity on Friday, April 15. |
