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Creative movement, Creativity, Expressive Arts, Imaginative thinking

Paint -Let’s Explore !!

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Today we decided to explore and have some fun with the paint through colour mixing and sensory experiences. We had a look at the colour charts and chose our colours and filled our pots.

We began to mix our colours together and were excited to see them change right before our eyes. “ Look you made pink”.  The children created peach, lime green, sky blue , yucky brown!

The children always enjoy some hand painting. Engaging with different colours, textures and materials stimulates the child’s senses, promoting integration and cognitive development.

We can even paint our nails and blow them dry like mummy does!

Some of the older children began to try different ways to use the cotton buds  “Look I can roll mine and it makes a bigger mark and it feels nice in my fingers “.  This helps develop the fine motor skills and enhancing hand eye coordination.

Producing their own artwork gives all our children a sense of accomplishment and pride, boosting their confidence and self-esteem. Plus it was just great fun!!

Article – 13  You have the right to play and learn through new experiences.

Expressive Arts

Bubble, Bubble, Splat.

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In the Studio Room our children have enjoyed using the rollers to paint. Today we used bubble wrap to further develop their interests.

We started with the different shaped rollers. We picked the colour of paint we wanted then got to work rolling the paint rollers across the bubble wrap.


We enjoyed listening to the pop of the bubbles as the rollers glided over. We spoke about the patterns our rollers were making onto the bubble wrap. “Curvy” and “zigzag” ones are the favourites.

We like popping the bubbles with our hands and exploring the texture of the bubble wrap.

Our activity soon took a change and became much more fun and sensory based as we used our hands to paint.

Much more fun! We decided the the bubble wrap was “bumpy” and the paint was “cold” and  “smooth”.

We tried different ways to pop the bubbles, with our fingers and our whole hands.

We used our hands to mix the colours together to make new colours and spread the paint all over the bubble wrap making it look colourful and bold.


We even tried printing our hands and the bubble wrap with corks to experiment with the sounds and shapes it would make.

We had such fun with something so simple that inspired thought provoking questions from our children from 2-5 years. We enjoyed incorporating sensory experiences into our painting. We were learning about patterns and using new descriptive language.
But most important of all, we had the best fun getting messy.