Are you looking for more fun art ideas? If you have an old table or chair, try wrapping cling film round the legs and let your wee one paint away.
Cling Film Painting
Category Archives: Expressive Arts
Life of a Leaf…Part 1
What you can do with one leaf is quite incredible. 
While you are out collect a leaf, it can be big or small. Then turn your leaf into a character. You might have more than one so you might create lots of characters.
Puppet Pal
Who doesn’t have a drawer full of odd socks? Make a puppet pal by using any bits you might find around your home or local area!
Children Charades
PLAY CHARADES
On pieces of cut-up paper, write down phrases or words to act out with your wee ones. Take turns pulling a single paper out of a container and have fun acting out the description.
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Everybody Freeze!
Get ready to move!
Your wee people will love this so will the big ones! One person is the DJ and in control of the music. When the music starts, start dancing but watch out! As soon as the music is paused…freeze!
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Bouncing Bubbles
These giant bubbles will leave your kids full of wonder
and excitement.
What you need:
- 4 Tbsp water
- 1 Tbsp washing up liquid
- 2 Tbsp sugar
- Bubble wand
Add water to a bowl then add washing up liquid. Add the sugar and stir gently until its dissolved. Now your bubble solution is ready!
Homemade wand:
- Plastic cup: Punch a hole in the bottom to blow through…
- Plastic soft drinks bottle: Cut the bottom off the bottle and dip…
- Pip cleaners: You can create just about any shape you like from a pipe cleaner , just make sure you keep a small section as a handle…
- Plastic funnel
- Drinking straws
Make a Mark!
Getting your wee ones to start scribbling and mark-making
is central to creating confident writers when they grow up. They will love expressing their thoughts and feelings through making marks while working their little muscles.
What you need:
• Paper/ black or whiteboard (anything you are happy for your wee one to scribble on)
• Crayons/ chalk
• Pens
• Paint
• Modelling clay/playdough
What to do:
1. Encouraging children of all ages to start
making marks is crucial for their development. It helps to develop their imagination and creative skills.
2. They will start by
discovering that their movements can
make marks on the page, but as they
grow, they’ll start to be able to give shape
and maybe even meaning to the marks
they make.
3. They will explore the sensory
experience, the feeling of crayons, the
smell of paint, the roughness of the paper.
4. You could try out finger painting or
getting them to draw using their finger
dipped in water on the pavement outside.
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