Dream Jars

The last week of half term has been really hectic with so much going on that some of us have got really confused about who is supposed to be doing what and at what time.

As well as Bike for Life training, the Life Education caravan and the book fair we have managed to fit some activities for book week. Our monster book marks can be seen on the previous post.  Our final activity for book week was to make dream jars for the BFG to store his dreams in.

First of all we had to write our dream. We tried to make them as dreamlike as possible and include some strange events and people in them. Next we wrote them neatly and decorated them with metallic pens.

Now came the really fun part where we decorated the jars themselves.

We hung sequins from the inside of the jar lids so that they would turn and swing inside the jars. It was very fiddly threading the cotton through the hole in the sequin.

We also had some metallic sticky backed paper and so we used that to decorate the tops of the jar lids.

 

Finally we used glass markers to decorate any part of the jar that had not been covered up by the dream writing.

Here you can see some of our finished jars and their decorations.