A rainy Saturday afternoon means we get out the paints! My kids were intrigued as I set up this simple process art activity, they couldn’t work out what I was doing with all these odd bits and pieces, but as soon as I said ‘scrunch painting’ they got the idea! Sometimes it’s fun to do […]
Water Drop Printing.
There is something magical about the way water beads on waxy surfaces. Add a little colour to the water and you’ve got a cool science meets art activity! Surface tensions is not easy to explain to kids, but it is easy to show them! There are loads of great surface tension experiments and activities you […]
DIY Cardboard Tube Construction Toy
Cold, windy, rainy weather. Two bored children. A whole heap of cardboard tubes. What do you do with these three items??? Make a cool DIY cardboard tube construction toy! This simple DIY construction set slots together to make all kinds of funky cardboard shapes and sculptures. You can build a one off piece of art […]
Nine Mathsy Things My Kids Love
Do you call it ‘maths’ or ‘math’? Here in Australia we usually refer to it as mathS, and while I used to think it was really boring, now that I have kids I am changing my mind. My boys are both quite ‘mathsy’. They love playing around with numbers, and maths concepts, and are quite […]
20 Fun Ways to Practice Scissor Skills
Recently I’ve been helping out with a class of 5 and 6 year olds, and over the last few weeks we’ve been working a lot on cutting. Learning to use scissors can be a really tricky thing for some kids. There are a lot of prerequisite skills that a child needs before they can be […]
Ten Crazy Things to Print With
My kids and I love the easy art technique of printing. You can make so many cool patterns and shapes and creations by using all kinds of fun objects to print with. We’ve already used some weird and wonderful things to print with, like nuts and bolts, and the bottom of plastic containers, but we […]
Draw an Expanding Hug!
It was their grandmother’s birthday. The big girls were making her a cake, and the boys wanted to do something special too. “I want to make her a hug!” declared the five year old, and that gave me a great idea. Let’s draw some expanding hugs! This is a simple drawing activity that is loads […]
Domino Crazy! – Fun with Domino Rallies
I found an old set of dominoes at my parents place over the holidays. Not the kind of dominoes with dots on them that you use for playing a game, but the kind that you set up in a line and knock down, and I had an inkling that my eight year old might enjoy […]
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