Open-ended Art: Mosaic (Playdoh Tiles & Cereal Cubes)

It has not been a wonderful week since Sophie is sick, sleep deprived and cranky always and Mama is super tired as a result. However, we still tried to complete the mosaic art with Playdoh tiles as proposed at Growing and Learning by Leaps and Bounds ... on a much smaller scale though.



I thought that Sophie might appreciate some time with her Playdoh since we did not get to carry out our usual Playdoh Time yesterday. We did the Letter Of The Week “y” instead to make up for lost time (Tuesday). So I quickly rolled out the Playdoh and made little rectangular tiles with a cookie cutter while she was busy entertaining herself.

I used plastic tray as a base since the end product would not be a permanent piece. She was not too excited about the task but she complied anyway because it seemed novel especially after I put the “duck” in the centre.

Unfortunately, that was about the only successful piece of work done. When I tried to introduce more “tiles” of different colours, Sophie lost interest and started throwing everything on the floor. She had more fun driving me insane with the mess than creating another mosaic. Sometimes I think she was trying to get my attention by doing what I did not want her to do. How frustrating!

I thought that was quite enough for the moment so I shooed her off and cleaned up before making her the letters "Y" and "y" with her Jumping Clay.

Feeling down and defeated, I tried to engage her again during snack time. I put a plate of strawberry syrup and a bowl of cereal cubes in front of her in hope that she would put most of the cubes in there before figuring out how delicious they tasted.



Well, it did not take long for her to realise that she could actually eat those cubes. Of course, she still sought my approval (with her facial expression) before putting the first one in her mouth. She did not like the sticky feel of the syrup on her fingers and the taste (surprisingly). And so, she started feeding ME those cereal cubes that were stained with syrup. And I thought that was SWEET.