Art Show - Art- Art Exhibition

Rori's daycare centre, which is also a kindergarten - she attends there 1 session a week while I madly do all my shopping and appointments- held an Art exhibition to raise funds for the centre. The idea was that the parents would hopefully buy their child's artworks. I wasnt able to take too many photos for privacy reasons, but I was allowed to take these photos as you cant discern who the children are.
The room was well set out, with partitions with artworks on both sides, a gazebo/pavilion with art dangling down from the ceiling, workers offering drinks and hors d'œuvres, a visiting clown and other attractions. It would have taken a long time and a lot of effort to set it all up. I just wasnt able to take pictures with a room full of people.
 

My 15 year old daughter found a sea-sponge on the beach and used it for a pencil case and lovely shelf decoration. Very imaginative I thought!

I took some photos at Zari's current kinder (non-Montessori) of her doing some pasting. I like that there are plenty of art activities to do, and many different work-stations to chose from. I am getting this kinder for a special price currently. When this special deal ends I will put her back into Montessori Pre-school. I like having them attend some days (not every day) pre-school activities, as they get good socialisation at the age when kids have not yet turned bad. That seems to begin about 4 years old. Hence I do not want to put them into school, which begins here at 5 years old (4 and a half to be precise, at the earliest). I have observed this through my experiences with my other children. 4 year old kinder for my son at one centre involved boys bullying him, which he only told me about recently. The other kinder had one child who was nasty to kids and cruel to the kinder pets. I would help out on fruit duty and found it very stressful trying to stop the animal cruelty. It traumatised my son also, as well as other parents and children. And it only gets MORE stressful and traumatising as the children attend school, with a myriad of personalities of students, teachers and parents to interact with. No thanks - not for me.

The ceiling (see pic below), walls and windows are all decorated with artworks. I'm trying to replicate the kindergarten atmosphere at home in my family room (schoolroom). I am studying a Montessori pre-school teachers course at the moment, so it is good for me to observe kindergartens and preschools, both Montessori and non-Montessori.