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We went to the theatre on thursday!

The play was: Dziady the part 1.

It was a very visual play. With a lot of stage play. With candles, music, intonation, light effects. Student liked it but just thought it would be longer and with more details that they read in the book. But globally student are satisfied!

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We did during all the week (13-17th of January) at Swietlica some dolls with childrens. Everyone loved creating these dolls, they were very precise and motivated to do their best. They chose their own materials and design after we just help them to sew or glue the dolls. It was a good activity to develop patience, precision and a lot of fun!!

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This are ones of the dolls that children created

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We decided with the children to build some buildings with kapla, this is what we made. We also played a game with kaplas.

What is interesting is that we can realise that with just one simple thing (kapla) we can create multiples games. Children had fun and the most important is that everyone can learn and practice different skills with games.

This is why Swietlica is great for the children, they can learn in a different way and develop some skills as creativity, agility, patience…

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We did an activity with colored paper, kids wanted to do some origami so we multiples différent origami during świetlica

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This is an exemple of the origami we did with the kids. This is a mixed of my work (the gift box) and Martina the other volunteer work. She did the rabbit and children decided to put the rabbit in the box. The other rabbit is a spécial task for a little girl that had a lollipop and wanted this origami to put on her lollipop.

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We decided with the kids to start to build some things with these Lego, I was impressed to see how all the kids did a really good job. Some decided to build a house and then imagining how it is inside the house. Another little girl did an impressive duck with a lot of details, another girl decided to stay in this theme and did a yellow chick. Then they did all together a place where the chick and the duck can rest ! It’s a good exemple of the huge imagination that kids have.

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we did a painting activity where the goal was to first draw a rainbow all over the paper and then paint whatever we want to represent either the only rule that it have to be black. I decided to copy a model on internet and I did a zebra. Kids had multiples idea, the most popular was houses and trees but some of them did different things as flowers.

It was a good activity to teach kids to also be responsible to be careful of the painting, to wash the paint by themself, and also to be patient while they were waiting to the painting dry before starting painting in black. I think kids were satisfied of their paintings.

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today Martina was sick, unfortunately there is a lot of different virus.

With 5 kids we first played a game named Dixit, I really enjoyed it, the goal is to put a card and say a word that is in link with the card and then all the other put a card that look like this and you have to guess which card is the original one. It developed imagination and creativity, I learned this game at świetlica and after I played it with my friends in Poland and I can tell that it’s for all ages.

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After the dixit we started a drawing competition, I was taking a model on my phone and the objective was to be the faster and to do the best drawing. All kids did a really good job, we spend 2 hours doing it. Kids were totally into it, they really enjoyed it. At the end they all give me their drawings! Here are the results:

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European corps Training

From 24th of february to 1st of march me and Martina had to go to Warszawa for our mandatory training.

We had a really good time, we learned a lot of things about our role, goals as volunteers, some details about polish culture. It really help to make us realise that we’re surrounded in this project and that a lot of people are living the same challenges as us.

We met really great people, we spend good time hanging out in hotel room, talking and sharing about our cultures.

All the activities were really useful.

The hotel was very great the only bad point is that we were a little bit far from the city center but we had a morning to visit Warszawa in groups.

I really enjoyed the old town of Warszawa, the modern part is not really interesting in my opinion.

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Here was an activity where we had to cross all the path till a yellow line without touching the floor and by never quoting one paper , it was harder than I expected, but it was a good activity to get to know each other and to challenge our self in a personal way but also challenge the group.

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We starting entering in the month of march so of course everyone is starting thinking about spring and dreaming about flowers the warm, birds and green everywhere.

Here in Poland we have to wait one month more to see the obvious signs of spring.

In France in march it’s already spring there are flowers, the weather become way warmer, the sun pops up.

I really cannot wait for spring it’s my favorite season of the year.

While waiting for it we started spring decoration in Swietlica here are some!

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the goal was to create some flowers on a flack paper with painting and a plastic bag.

We put an elastic at the end of the plastic bag we returned it and then put some air inside and closing it to let it inflate.

Then children had to paint the tip in the color of their choices and then putting it on the paper as a tampon.

Kids really enjoy this original activity!

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today it was nothing really special, we just did some coloring with the kids.

It’s also good to do some calm activity where we don’t have to explain anything or after have a big mess to clean.

It’s a simple activity but kids always enjoy it :)

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I never think about taking pictures or documenting my English class because it’s more about an exchange with the student so I do t really take pictures or talk about it. But we have more or less 7 English classes during the week.

We always try with Martina to propose something different than the regular English classes. We really want to push the student to speak in English and express themself always in an interesting way.

We do a lot of group activity and then after they have to present their work to everyone.

This class we chose two questions and give them the choice to answer in group to one of them. They all chose the first topic. They did a really good job with a lot of funny details about their dream holidays.

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every Monday morning we’re doing some paintings. So today we resided to do some flowers to decorate school for spring.

We cut a straw at the extremity to do a circle that look like a flower.

Children had to put it in paint and tampon on the paper after this they just had to add if they wanted of course some green leaf. Here are the results. We put the paintings in front of the big Świetlica the results a really good.

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in always the same goal: doing decorations for spring we decided to build a honeycomb with recycle toilet paper roll that we painted in yellow the outside as the inside, then we cut kitties pieces. That I with 2 or 3 kids glue to each other to create the structure. And some kids draw some bees, and flowers to after add it to the honeycomb. Then with Martina we hook it in Świetlica.

It was a really good activity because there was a lot of different work. So the kids could chose what they wanted to do, painting, cutting, gluing, drawing.

Everyone was satisfied and the final result is pretty good.

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Since I’m here I get three times sick, which is a lot, it’s probably the weather (winter time is always the worst) and also the fact that I work with kids. It’s really easy to catch a virus or something like this.

This week I catch a flu, I was really tired, I had headache and stomach pain. My muscles were hurting and I was also caught h a lot. 3 volunteers were sick almost at the same time so it’s really possible that it was the same sickness.

I did some tee and had a lot of rest.

Now it’s Martina turn to be seek.

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these few days were really warm and sunny so during Świetlica with the kids we were going outside to play and enjoy the good weather.

Kids always invite something new to play with. Today 5 kids started playing with ladybird, they were asking me to keep them on my hand at one moment i ended with 3 ladybug walking on my hand. I was really struggling to keep all of them.

Then with the girls we just enjoy the sun by having a sunburn and an “imaginary nap” as they called it.

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we started with Martina doing some Spanish decoration to add to our project to do a theatre show with the kids. It’s gonna be a mixed of traditional dance and dialogue, we gonna use polish French and Spanish culture to represent in the show the cultural diversity.

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For the first day of spring our school organise a lot of school trip in a lot of different places. With Martina we accompany a class of 13-14 years old teens. We walk from school to the destination which watch just a 30 min walk.

Then we participate to the activities with kids. We were separated in 3 groups because there was 3 different activities that each last 1 hour.

First we did some brainstorming activity where we had to remember the way to end the labyrinth, then we had to turn 10 times around a stick and doing a slalom and then holding a rope and someone had to cross the rope in the air.

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Here Martina find a cat to pet 😁

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the second activity was to cross a wall of rope without touching it and without crossing the same square to times. Some of it were really high so it was challenging to find a way to make a student passed by it. But we did a really good job by passing the wall in just 30 seconds. Important information is that we were 15

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the 2nd activity was also to jump at the same time all together at the jump rope our final and best score was 8 jumps,

And the last was to put wood piece of wood on each other with the help of a sort of spider web with in the middle a hook to hang the wood piece. It was a team work with a lot of precision we almost did all the wood piece.

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after the two first activity we had a bonfire it was really nice to have a sunbath.

Everyone had their own food, at the end we were smelling a strong smell of burn wood

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the last activity was paintball. But the difference is it was an air paintball so it wasn’t paint full or even dangerous.

We was two team fighting against each other. I was in the yellow team and Martina was in the red team (the yellow team won at almost all the games)

It was really challenging to develop some skills, team work and strategy to be the best team.

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as every Monday today we had painting activity

I decided to do a watering can with a piece of recycle toilet paper roll that we cut and scotch on the paper, then the children had to chose the color, drawing clouds, flowers, grass. Also doing the extremity of the watering can. The final is really stunning. Kids enjoyed so much that they insist to continue to paint something.

And everyone helped me to clean!

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after this they just painted what comes to their mind.

We continue the painting activity because we had a lot of painting leftovers and we always try to use it all to not waste it.

Kids are always really creative so the paintings are really interesting

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This tuesday we had a really sunny day so we used it to go outside with the kids in Świetlica.

I decided to do some games with them where they can run and have fun.

For me it’s really important for kids to have a physical activity and also to have a sun bath.

SO we played a lot of different games that we have in commun in France and Poland, it’s often the same games everywhere but just not the same game.

I really enjoy this Time and or make me have some sport to :)

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They starting mesuring the time they can last the most in a plank position so i proposed to do a competition, we did this with a lot of different sport mouvement kids where happy to do something competitive and that change from the normal

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Then with a teacher we went to the gym and did a game to train them to learn silence. One teacher had to go in the middle close the eyes and one child has to crosse the płot without making any noise because the teacher was pointing on the place he heard noise. So kids was learning how to make any noise.

The other game was Simon which in France is jacques a dit, it’s teaching them how to be attentive to the details and the teachers

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When we don’t have a creative idea for the kids they are always board games to save us. It was the end of the day we were tired so we just played uno with the kids.

It’s a classic, everyone knows it even if the rules change a lot depending on the people.

But it’s always a nice game to play and everyone can enjoy

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Today in Świetlica we played a really interesting board game that was about Egypt. It was a really good game because we could play while learning some informations about Egypt and its history.

Kids were a little bit lost with all the rule, sometimes arguing about the rules. But I manage to calm their conflicts.

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The only annoying thing about the game, was that the board game piece couldn’t hold well so sometimes it was confusing to find the place where children stopped.

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I never take pictures of gifts they gave to me. But it often happening that kids decide to give me the creative things they did in Świetlica. Here for exemple a girl cut some paper and then she gave it to me as a gift. It’s always nice to receive this from children because this is the moments you realise that your work is useful and that they are great full of your work and support.

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Today ula my coordinator ask for some help to put some Colors on the drawn letters to put them for a special event that happen in school (theatre event with some dance) so I helped her for 1h (there was a lot of papers)

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We always try to do our best to propose some lesson in link with the regular classes like this children have fun while learning and it also help the teachers to not “loose” an hour.

So here they told us they were studying past simple so we made some sentences with the verb missing like this they had to think about first the good vocabulary and then putting it on past simple. They did a really great job!

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Ula ask us for some help to make some bookmarks for a special event in the school. So we went to the teachers room during Świetlica time and did this for one hour. It was always the same taking the ball of yarn cut some end put it in the hole of the plastify paper and doing a knot.

I really enjoy it because I like manual activities where you can repeat an action and I was also with Martina so the time pass faster.

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During all the week Erasmus student form Romania came to the school as a cultural exchange. They were 14 years old and I was really surprised to see that they have a really good English level. They talk a perfect English and understand everything.

Honestly aome of them were even better than me.

They ask us to do a quick presentation of our countries with Martina, so we did a presentation. They already knew a lot about French because they all have French classes, they even spoke to me with some French words.

They were really paying attention to my presentation and were active during it so it made me have a good time.

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Then with Ula we had a creative activity to do with the Romanian students.

In Poland we spring is coming it’s famous to do or buy some fake or draw flowers stick to decorate it for Easter or just for enjoying spring mood.

So we did this activity with the students.

Surprisingly boys enjoyed a lot the activity and did really beautiful flower sticks. Girls also enjoyed it. After one hour some kids started being bored but they were free to just stop the activity and doing nothing. The main goal here was to divert kids, introduce some polish traditions to them and having fun ! I did also two flowers.

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After we had Świetlica for one hour so we proposed to do a caterpillar that is moving thanks to a stick.

Kids were really excited for this activity because it was an original one.

There was a lot of mess because kids had to use the glue but they put some of it everywhere on the table.

I was running everywhere because there was always something missing or some kids needed help.

A lot of kids didn’t finish their work because they had to go to classes so unfortunately we the time wasn’t great managed.

But 4 of them finished it and they were really happy to play with it. One of the girls give me as a gift her moving caterpillar.

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Today we went to the forest with a class of 8 years old kid.

We already did this 2 other times (one time I was sick so actually it was just Martina)

Today it was spring activities.

We always going to the same forest but we took a different way this time.

The morning was divided in 3 activities all of them were different and really fun for kids. I really enjoy being in the forest and moreover because of the beautiful sunny weather. We were really lucky

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The first activity was to climb on some destroy trees

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Then kids trained their balance by crossing a tree trunk (some of them cried because they didn’t succeed :( )

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The guild used trees to put some rope and made the children cross it

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They had to take off the cover of a stick with a knife that the guide gave to them.

So children had to be careful and be responsible of their own safety. Children were really responsible and care about doing the activity in a good way. No one was playing with the knife which made the activity easier for us.

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Today I did my presentation of French country to some students, after they asked me some questions about France and then I put the Marseillaise which is the national anthem of France they enjoyed it some of them even sing.

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I found this mathematical game in the teachers room I took it and I told to myself that if one day I don’t have any idea for an activity in Świetlica I will do this.

So today I remembered about it and we did it with a bunch of kids. They were happy to see that they are able to calculate that fast. They were really concentrated. We did all the calculs and none of them left before the end. They learned and trained by playing!

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This game is also a really good game for memory, we played 3 times and at all games some kids were leaving the game when they weren’t good, and some children that were just looking and not playing wanted to join the game in the middle of a game because they knew where was a pair. It’s funny to see ans realise this attitude.

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After the memo just two children stayed and we played a writing game, children had to take a card of a vegetable and write de word correctly, they did a great job.

It was also a challenge for me because it make me train my polish. Speaking and understanding polish is way easier than writing, sometimes I need to check the good way to write polish word so it was also a learning activity for me.

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Again it was the time to draw flowers, just three kids wanted to do my activity but it’s always better than none! We used wax crayon so it changed from the regular crayon.

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With our students of Tuesday morning we had to work past simple so we wrote the first sentence and they had in group to do the following story! Some group were not motivated at all but some of them did really creative stories.

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I decided to do a mosaic activity for the kids with paper instead of glass.

First I had to cut the colourful papers and it took me and Martina 2 hours so the activity was not ready for the day but I decided to do it the next day.

It was a repetitive action.

First I had to do the squares with a pencil and then cutting it.

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To keep the papers separated by color I took a plastic bag and did a knot to each color like this the Colors didn’t mix

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It was a special day today because children could come without a bag at school so they had to bring something else.

A lot of them just didn’t do this challenge but some of them were really creative!

When a passed next to the cantine I saw all the bags at the entry so I took a picture.

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Finally we did the mosaic activity a lot of kids wanted to do it.

There was a lot of children and a lot of noise at Świetlica today so it wasn’t easy to stay organise

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Today it’s the first time I’m going at the cantine while there are the sweet pastas so I tried it and I enjoy it.

Martina hate it but for me it’s as just a dough with a sweet topic.

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Today as usual we had our Monday morning painting activity. Children had to reproduce the famous Van Gogh painting: “the starry night” they did a really good job!

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Et girl decided to do some little figurine with some coloring page that she did. She cut it and then ask me for help to glue it to some stick. Like this she could play with it after, two days after this I found her playing again with her figurines, she even added a house for them.

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The rest of them did just regular coloring pages

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Another girl during this creative time decided to do some coloring of girls and did a really good job. She enjoyed so much creating the outfit makeup hair that she did a lot of coloring pages. She was precisely choosing the Colors in a way to match the entire look. At each drawing she was showing it to me and I was always doing a special analysis of the style of her drawing.

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For my side the girls decided to also give me a drawing to do, so they choose either me on Pinterest the drawing I will do.

It wasn’t that complicated but with so much details that I spend 1:30 on it and I didn’t even finished. I will finish it at home.

All the kids were really interested in my activity and were always asking question about it. So I was drawing with other children’s while talking with them and helping them, this is important for me to also share some moments like this. Children feel closer of us when we are sharing and doing the activities with them.

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This title is in French, it’s a game that I really appreciate. The players hss as be to turn around chairs and sit on it when the music stop. But there is one less chair than people so one gonna lose the game by not having a chair.

We played till there is just one chair.

We weren’t a lot at Świetlica this day so I could do this game.

When a kid was losing they were always disappointed so I find a way to distract them: when you lose you play the music and you choose when to stop the music, it was really efficient.

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Two girls ask me to draw some dogs for them, so here are the pictures

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It’s a classic we did it a lot of time, children have always different ideas and goals!

For these constructions we practice patience, precision and perseverance!

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For this construction we used all the wooden building blocks. The other children were impressed and curious about it. So the ones that build it were really proud

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Here in Poland compared to France in school there is always an inside shop were children are free to buy some food and There is also some toys for little kids.

This boy wanted to go to buy something after he get an allergie réaction because of pollen, so i went with him. This bring him some comfort :)

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I spend all the morning with the kids outside, it was cloudy but really warm so it was really great to enjoy this soft weather and to play with kids at multiples games.

We did a run race, played to a game (red light green light) of course the name of the game is différent in French and Polish but it’s the same rules.

I had also some talk with children and help children that were falling, crying…

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One boy asked me all the morning to play chest with him, I didn’t played chest since 5 years but atthe end of Świetlica i accepted he was really patient because hé explained to me all the rules and répètes it each time i was forgerons one of them.

He easily won, it was a really good moment it’s since a lot of time that im thinking about playing chest, it was the occasion to remember the rules!

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We have 2 jours of library per week we often work on a project that we started with Martina. This time I was alone and my coordinator ula had to choose the 3 best art pieces for a competition.

We spend 30 minutes to be sure of our choice.

It was really hard because children did a really good job.

There was a lot of details and original creations.

The theme was library in space.

Here or some of the creations!

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I decided to do a creative activity with the kids. The idea is to reuse some eggs boxes I kept from my house. Then I cut it at home to do just some little pieces that will represent the head of a rabbit. With white and coloured paper I created a frame.

Then I gave it to children and show the inspiration and they had fun and did a great job. The only complicated thing was to glue the egg carton to the paper because it was liquid glue but I did it myself for all the kids like this there was no additional mess.