REGULATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL ONLINE PHOTO EXHIBITION OF
CREATIONS FROM SAND FOR FAMILIES „STORIES OF SAND 2015“
Natural
beauty, warmth of the sun inspires to create something new, interesting,
unusual ... For the fifth year organizers of the project invites to create from
sand and share these creative moments with others.
Photo
exhibition "Sand stories" within four years took part in 102
educational institution communities in various Lithuanian cities, 3064
participants (children, parents and teachers), 1434 photos of creative work of
the sand have been exhibited, the exhibition site was visited by 6370 visitors
from Lithuania and abroad: US, Britain, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland
and others.
Photographs
of your created sand sculptures and structures will be exhibited on the website
http://smeliopasakojimai.blogspot.com, you can enjoy sand stories all year round.
OBJECTIVE - to promote children's
creativity and develop imagination, creating different structures, compositions
and spatial sculptures out of sand.
EXPECTED RESULTS:
• Implement
children's creative ideas.
• To use
traditional and non-traditional technical creation of sand.
• To acquire
teamwork skills.
• To share
creative ideas with educational institutions in other cities or countries.
PROJECT PROMOTERS
Kaunas
kindergarten „Mazylis“.
EXHIBITION PARTNERS
Kaunas City
Municipality Administration, Education, Culture and Tourism Development of the
Board of Education and Training Division; Kaunas District Pre-school Art
Educators Community.
CREATIVE GROUP OF KAUNAS KINDERGARTEN
„MAZYLIS“
director
Dalia Mazaliauskiene;
deputy
director of education Agne Sneideryte;
kindergarten
teacher Daiva Brusokiene;
kindergarten
teacher Edita Abracinskiene;
kindergarten
teacher Inga Ciuciunkeviciute.
PARTICIPANTS
Children,
their parents and educators from Lithuanian and foreign educational
institutions.
PROJECT DURATION
June -
October of 2015
ORGANISATION AND FIXATION
• Sand built
structures, compositions and spatial sculptures should be created in a freely
chosen environment (in kindergarten, yard, home, water ponds, etc.).
• The
pictures should be taken of the creative process, compositions and structures
of sand (creative process of children, children/parents and children/teachers).
Please send photos to project promoters by e-mail provided below:
E-mail: smeliopasakojimai@gmail.com.
RECOMMENDED TECHNOLOGY
1. Select the
most fine and clean sand and moisten it with water. Compress wet sand heavily,
it helps to eliminate air bubbles from the sand.
2. Ornaments
and writings should be obtained using safe tools such as kids spades, sand
toys, bottles, sticks, rulers and so on.
3. Structures
can be created by draining the wet sand (if you are near water pond).
4. If you
want to construct of sand at home, we recommend to use one of these sand
mixtures:
• 1 cup of
wet sand, 2 tbsp adhesives. To form a sculpture of a wet mixture. This
technology is suitable for the production of a variety of dishes, paintings and
objects which has to be solid.
• 3 cups of
sand, 1-1.5 cups of starch, 1-1.5 cups of water. Mix on low heat until
thickened (can be boiled for a few minutes in the microwave), let it to cool,
knead and create sculptures. Rest it on a solid ground and it dries out in 24
hours or heat it in the oven at 200 ° C and it dries in about 4 hours.
Using one of
these technologies sand does not stick to your hands, it can be easily formed,
retains its shape while drying. Children who are creating sculptures from one
of these mixtures can relax and enjoy their crafts for much longer or to use
them for playing.
SUBMISSION AND ORGANISATION OF THE
EXHIBITION
Participants
must send just electronic photo version by 2015-09-30.
Add a
description for each picture, which includes:
work title, the participant(s) name,
address, age group, child(ren) comment (optional), teacher's name, last name, educational institution, city.
Specify the
names of family members if they took part in the creative process.
We invite
adults to take pictures with their children.
Send photos
by e-mail smeliopasakojimai@gmail.com.
The
exhibition will be on display on the website http://smeliopasakojimai.blogspot.com/.
The final
photo exposure is expected till October.
If you are
sending pictures with children, please get their parents' consent.
A certificate
of participaion will be sent till December 2015 to the teachers who
participated in the project.
ADDITIONAL TERMS:
Photo senders
are responsible for participants consent to exhibit pictures online.
Participants
can contact the organizers if they wish to remove the pictures from the online
space.
Contacts:
Inga
Ciuciunkeviciute, Agne Sneideryte
e-mail: smeliopasakojimai@gmail.com