During the social distancing measures for Covid-19 we have had to end all our public messy play sessions and all our art therapy groups. We are posting art activities that are easy to do at home on our website and posting these regularly on social media. To keep up to date with these you can …
Today we are repurposing some toddler toys to make interesting marks with paint. This activity is nice to do together with wee ones as it lets them make art in a playful way, you can roll cars back and forward to see what happens and make loud stomping sounds as you both make footprints. You might have …
If it stays nice and sunny, little ones might enjoy some sensory exploration of different temperatures using ice. These need a little planning the day before to put things in the freezer but other than that no materials so it’s a nice free idea. Here are a few different suggestions of ways you could add …
This is a really easy sensory tray, perfect for a hot day. It involves no planning at all but wee ones will enjoy getting to use their toys in the water and somehow the water being blue makes it just a little bit better than normal water! For the tray we used a big, shallow, plastic storage tray …
We’re doing more art works with materials found around the house today and this time we’re raiding the recycling to use up cardboard tubes. These make fun printing tools for doing daisies (or they could be nice sunshines) and they are easy for little ones to hold on to and experiment with. This is an nice simple …
We had a request this week for a pavement chalk recipe as lots of children have been chalking designs on the pavements outside their house. This recipe will make a chalky textured paint that you can paint onto the pavement or a driveway and will wash away in the rain or with a hose when …
This is a nice activity if you don’t feel like getting too messy but still want to help wee ones be creative and explore colours in a different way. You need: Some thin papers – tissue paper shapes are ideal or thin coloured paper but you can also add in others from home, like kitchen …
This is a fun way to bring something different to painting with little ones. Doing a contact print from paint on a surface rather than straight on to the paper gives a different effect to the finished painting and you can do several from one surface to get a set. Wee ones seem to like …
Sometimes we know that wee ones like to use every drip of paint out the bottle and it just keeps getting thicker until it pours off the paper. We want to find a way for them to explore the thick, drippy paint without it getting too chaotic. So if you find painting with your wee ones …
This week we are trying making life size paintings by drawing round bodies on to paper. Children usually enjoy the attention they get as you draw round them and it’s also a fun game not to wriggle as it tickles. It’s also nice for children to get to step back and look at themselves and it’s a fun …