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 craft which is very quick to set up.
You need:
- Paper
- non toxic paints in a tray or on a plate
- Cardboard tubes from toilet rolls or kitchen roll
- Scissors
- Cover the tale or floor with a mat or newspaper
Make a stamp shape by cutting slits around the end of a tube and then folding these outwards into a flower shape. You could help pre-schoolers to do the cutting themselves or do it in advance for babies. Now show them how to dip the stamp you’ve made into paint and make a print onto the paper. 
Then just let wee ones experiment and see what they come up with. They could also use an uncut end of a tube to print a circle shape and use this to make a pattern or form the centre of a flower.
