Little hands need nice large, easy to hold, art tools, and these homemade peg and sponge painters tick all those boxes, plus they are loads of fun to print and paint with! Easy Sponge Printing Activity These easy DIY peg and sponge painters are easy to make, and they use items you likely already have […]
Mono Printing Using Tiles
Sometimes it’s good to live on a building site. (Yes I am trying hard to find the positives in these never ending renovations) It’s good because there are lots of interesting bits and pieces lying around to play with! To escape the frustration of on-again, off-again rain on the weekend I stole a couple of […]
Easy Art For Kids – String and Block Printing.
Some days it is all about quick and easy. It’s all about using things I have on hand, not needing to buy or collect or wait for anything. Today it was an old idea from the my early days of teaching, and I can’t believe I’ve never done this my own kids It’s easy, a […]
Easy Art for Kids – Circle Printing
We went on a hunt, looking for round things to print with. We found lots of different round things, some worked well for printing, other’s not so well! Here are some round things that worked great to make prints with! A cup Cut up cardboard tube Bottle caps Marker lid The bottom of a gum […]
Easy Art For Kids – Duplo Printing.
I was thinking on my feet yesterday afternoon, and that usually ends in disaster. Day one of the school holidays and already the Bigs were ‘bored’ and fighting. I needed something to break the cycle, but the art activities I’d planned for this week all took a bit of preparation and of course I hadn’t […]
Holiday Painting and Printing.
So it’s school holidays for us at the moment… well kinder holidays. We’re still running at a mile a minute, with birthday parties and this crazy family wedding, but this week I was determined to do something fun with the kids, something they’d wanted to do for ages. We got out the paints. I was […]