Sometimes I get carried away with ideas for fancy, elaborate, art projects. Sometimes I curse Play School for filling my children’s heads with ideas on how to create ‘a farm with real animals and grass’ out of two toilet rolls and a box of tissues. And sometimes I remember that the kids and I don’t need to do super, fancy, difficult, messy art projects all the time. Sometimes I remember to keep it simple….
Just a a few pieces of coloured paper (ours happened to be origami paper, with a generous Japanese Sister-in-law we have lots of beautiful origami paper) cut into simple little squares, and a glue stick is all we needed.
The smaller hands enjoyed the process of simply choosing paper and sticking it to the page. When the older hands cam home from school they enjoyed creating more elaborate designs.
It was easy to set up, easy to clean up and fun for everyone.
We are joining on Childhood101.com ‘s We Play Link up. Pop on over and see what everyone else has been playing!
I’ve also shared this idea as part of NutureStore.uk ‘s Play Academy Link up. They have lots of other great ideas to share too.
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Great idea! Like you said, simple ideas are good. I’ll have to give this a go with my two.
cute collage. My kids love cutting and pasting
wow gorgeous and so simple. I agree you have wonderful ideas Kate
When we were working on Project 59 (which I am thinking we need to revisit and start again, I need some different “art” on my wall!) I pulled out all the coloured squares I had punched when I first got my Creative Memories square punches. Princess didn’t even look at them :( I have thousands of these things, and no way to use them …. :((
That’s a pretty good idea – I have so much origami paper lying about but it’s a pain for me let alone the kids to actually make origami, so fiddly! – so this is a brilliant idea that has one big thing in its favor – easy clean up!
I often get filled with ideas of fabulous projects that we could do from reading too many blogs, but you are right, the simple things always work and that is most often what we end up doing.
A really good ‘suits all ages’ craft and the little man turned out great. I think glue sticks are really practical for very young ones to grasp too. I wondered if you might join our Play Academy on Fridays – it would be great to swap ideas with you.
P.S. Forgot to say – I really like the design of your blog. Great graphics :)
Simple and fun. I must do this for my girls. Have to get more glue sticks as all ours dried up. Any recommended varieties?
You are so right, we do a lot more of the ‘simple and fun’ creative projects than the elaborate ones but then that is probably due to an impatient toddler!!
Oh my, that really made me smile! I am going to see if I can “persuade” Red Ted to this (rather than “just” stick things all over the page”) lovely
Would love for you to stop by at Kids Get Crafty and link up too? Every Wednesday at Red Ted Art. This week’s link is here:http://www.redtedart.com/2010/09/15/kids-craft-the-mona-lisa/
Hope to “see” you later?
Thanks!
Maggy
Thanks so much for sharing with the Play Academy. Hope you’ll join us again this Friday :)
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