Lantern making competition

Taken with my new camera. A lot of blur images as I'm still trying it out.. these are the few clearer pics.. enjoy..

Group A with their many ideas...


Group B hard at work..


Group C with the serious Weikang..


Group D working on their rocket..


The winner, Group B (again)


The children are still not quite ready for creative work.. think we need to give them more guidance next time.. but at least we do see some different lanterns..
I missed the chance to have a debrief with the kids.. so mayb I'll just post my comments here..

Group A: dunno whether to laugh or cry.. I did both by the way.. they used up quite a few materials but nothing turned out quite like it n they end up having the simple 'cup with string' lantern, this is the group which didn't plan... sigh.. or rather dunno how to plan.. no teamwork..

Group B: Winning group, slightly more teamwork.. quite focused on what they were doing.. creative use of materials but actually doesn't quite fit my criterior of a lantern, which is supposed to be translucent/ transparent with space for candle/ bulb.

Group C: Weikang was v serious when doing his lantern, with the drawing etc, but too bad, they didn't have the teamwork n being disturbed by dear Darelton plus other factors, the lantern wasn't finish n I got to help to finish it for them.. actually I saw them all doing things.. but seems like they didn't know what they were doing.. or did they know but got no time to finish? cos of our limited time n not so gd quality glue?

Group D: Actually I like the lantern that they made.. but I must say this is the group with the most help.. cos we gave them a lot of ideas n helped to coordinate for them.. so the finished pdt actually did fit my criterior of the lantern, they did problem solving as they do think of ways to have the space for candle, did some decoration, has a theme, uses recycled materials etc.. Not much teamwork from this team too but at least they managed to finish the lantern within the limited time.. I think next time for whatever activity, we need a volunteer at each team to help facilitate n not leave it to them to coordinate themselves...