School Holiday Project - Mosaic Words

During the recent school holidays this aunt once again had the undoubted priviledge to look after my younger nieces and nephew. I love to do little arts and crafts projects with them at these times and this time I again opted for a small mosaic project. I bought three short words, consisting of three letters each and a selection of small tiles. I loved seeing how each child's unique personality shone through their individual projects. I show you how I did this with them so that you could do something similar with your own children.

These are the three wooden diecut words that I bought for them to mosaic.

I also bought this set of tiles which included all of their favourite colours.

They cut the tiles apart themselves.

The tiles were then organized into small bowls.

I then told them to lay the tiles out on their words to make sure that it would fit. We were not going to cut any tiles as long as we were working with the younger children, although the older niece would be able to do so already.

The two girls, true to their nature, took their time with this.

Our little boy, who is always in a hurry, quickly finished his layout and then proceeded to use wood glue to adhere the tiles to the wood.

This is his project. I had to go and clean off the excess glue quickly before it dried.

This little one had not yet been able to talk when she was already sorting things according colour. She is a very organized young lady and it came as no surprise when she had no interest in mixing her colours on the letters.

This is her project.

The older niece took her time and worked past her frustrations with the tiles being too big to fit inside the words. She found very inventive ways of dealing with this.

This is her project. LAG is the Afrikaans word for laughter. The projects were left to dry overnight.

As I had forgotten to purchase grout, my brother had to sponsor this from his garage. My nephew, who had organized this, was given the priviledge of mixing it with water.

He had no problem dipping his hands into the grout and plastering it all over his project.

The older niece did not mind getting her hands dirty either, although she was more meticulous in her approach to the task.

The youngest of the three have always been squemish about getting her hands dirty and was very carful to use only one finger. I had to fill in the gaps after she had finished.

The projects were left to dry for an hour or two.

I then found an old cloth, which we wet with water and they each set about cleaning off the excess grout from their projects. The older niece was once again very meticulous.

The nephew was a bit too thorough and I had to stop him before he cleaned off all the grout from his project.

The younger niece was very careful not to get her hands dirty, but very happy to clean off her project.

I very happy crafter.

The face of pride in accomplishment.

Sheer joy.

The completed projects.

You can watch a compilation video of the above steps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/F7dYerlJU-c

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