Materials needed: balloons, poster paints, paint trays, paper.

Method:

Painting with Balloons is a great activity to explore creatively and imaginatively as you create freely using simple props in an open-ended and unstructured way. It also makes a great sensory activity as children use their hands to manipulate the paint and balloons to create patterns and prints onto paper.

Partially inflate the balloons so that they are a size that the children can easily pick up the balloons. You can match your balloon colour to the colour of your paint, perhaps a good matching activity? You can mix and blend colours to create new colours. The pressing of the balloons onto the paper can either be controlled to make a pattern or it can be free and spontaneous, which personally I think is more fun!

Hello everyone!
This is what I would like you to do today.
Join in with all the singing games!

Hickory dickory dare!
I have a dog and his name is Rover.
Chimaney chimaney Craney Crow!
You should be getting good at these by now. On Friday I’ll ask you to choose your favourite singing game!

Time for some movement! You may want to bring your shakers!


Time to relax!