Friendships Everywhere #6: Preparation for a Tea Party!

Inviting our friends

Making decorations

Last week, I read the story Miss Spider's Tea Party by David Kirk and the children all felt sad when the other bugs ran away from Miss Spider. Olympia mentioned: "She wants them at her tea party, she's not going to catch them." Jayla continued: "Yeah, maybe they(the bugs) just need to know she's not going to eat them." I asked the children how do we meet new friends. Lucas said: "You can say 'Hi!'" Theo said: "You can play with them." I told the children that one way that adults meet new friends is at parties. The children were drawn to the sound of parties. Below is a caring and cute conversation with the phrase "throw a party":

Making paper hats

Olympia: We should have a tea party for our friends!

Mary: Sure! Let's throw a party for our friends at Creative Minds. 

Theo: (Looking quite concerned) Are we throwing the party or are we having a party? 

Mary: Can you explain more to me?

Theo: Are we going to throw the party at the children or ...

Mary: I see! Throwing a party means having a party. We are not going to throw things at people. 

Theo: (With relief) Oh! 

Making gifts for the guests

The Water group is doing preparation work for our tea party on Thursday. The children came up with so many great ideas for the party. We need to invite our guests, make decorations, make paper hats, make a cake, prepare teacups and pots, and gifts. What a organized and thoughtful group of children!