Why is there gelatin in the sensory table?

Set up:

sensory table, molds of clear gelatin, pipettes, straws, liquid watercolors

Inspiration:
Bev Bos

Intention:

Discovery.
Wonder.
Surprise.

Five minutes:

Questioning.


"What are these?" 
"Why did you put these here, Ms. Ingram?"

Daring to touch.
"It feels like jelly!"
"It feels like a cracker!"
Laughter.

Ten minutes:

Curiosity.

Quiet.
Tentative.
Touching.
Testing.

"It reflects your fingers."

"It looks like bubbles."



Pipette to gelatin.
"The color goes in!"
"Mine is changing color!"
























Twenty minutes:

Delight.

"The paint is going in! See!"

"Look how many straws I got!"

"It is a birthday cake!"

Thirty minutes:

Enthusiasm.

Breaking gelatin with dropper.
"See, more pieces!"
"It's swippery!" [sic]

Forty minutes:  All in!

Boisterous laughter.

Hands together.

Squishing.
Smashing.

Peeling.

Stretching.

Sliming.
Wallowing.

Fifty minutes:

Transformation.

Some:
"Yuck. I am not touching that."
"It is gooeey oooey, I don’t like it." [Big smile, but NOT touching.]

One, undeterred. 

Searching for more materials to extend the play – 

“Oh, funnels!  Yes!”  

Sixty minutes:  Done.

Let's clean out the table....