“I want to make a puppet” he said with conviction, “a finger leg puppet.” “Ok” I said, asking what sort of finger puppet my boy wanted to make. “No” he said with frustration, “not a finger puppet, a finger leg puppet!” It took me a while to comprehend that my boy wanted to make a […]
Design a Decoration – Free Printable Drawing Prompts
Road trips, school Christmas plays, waiting for relatives to arrive, waiting for Christmas dinner to be served… There is often a lot of waiting associated with Christmas if you are a kid. And waiting is boring, unless you have something fun to do. To make all the waiting a little more bearable for the kids […]
Monster Blow Painting
We first had a go at blow painting a long time ago, when my girls were still small, my big boy just a baby, and the baby not even born yet! When my kids were little, art was all about the process and not so much about the product, and blow painting was all about […]
Super Cool Straw Mosaic Art
I went to Ikea last week. I didn’t buy anything very exciting – a chopping board, some bag clips, a couple of rolls of paper, and lots of straws! I just couldn’t resist the packets of straws, even though we already had a huge tub of straws at home, they were such bright, fun colours. […]
Awesome Drawing Ideas and Activities
My kids love to draw, and we do a lot of drawing. We started out with 20 ideas, now there are more than 40 drawing ideas on this page for you to try! Drawing is also a great learning activity with lots of fine motor skill and development, problem solving, language development and social learning […]
Three Quick and Easy Drawing Activities
I hear it in the tone of their voices. Things are about to go to hell in a handbasket and I really don’t have the energy to deal with fighting kids this afternoon. I don’t have the energy to deal with anything, but I still need make dinner and hang the washing so before things […]
My House Drawing Prompt – free printable
Sometimes you just need a little inspiration, a little prompt, just to get you started. “What will your house look like?” “Who will live in it?” “What colour will you paint it?” A few open questions and this fun My House drawing prompt and the creativity started flowing. We had so much fun with this […]
Absorption Painting – An Easy Process Art Activity
Sometimes the best creativity happens when you least expect it. This absorption painting activity happened by accident, when we’d finished another activity and had some liquid watercolors left over. I went to get some more paper to use up the last of the paint, but when I came back my boys had grabbed the paper […]
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