The Big Book this week is entitled, Yuck Soup. One of the ingredients in yuck soup is feathers. Today, we did a large group activity where each child got to place a feather into the “yuck soup”.  The children placed their feather on a blank black board.  The finished product becomes an Ephemeral Art piece.  Basically, the term Ephemeral Art refers to an art piece that is not permanent but rather transitory and exists only briefly.  Usually it involves materials found in nature.  The children have the opportunity to use the materials to create a picture that they can label or that tells a story.  In the past, we’ve used river rocks, natural wood pieces, coral, and flat gem stones.