April 15, 2014 by tinyadventure

Painting With Fresh Fish

Here is a slightly off the wall, educational, toddler and Pre-school activity. We made prints while learning a bit about fish. My toddlers and I made these lovely detailed prints by dabbing our fish with ink pad sponges.

We pressed our paper on to the fish and pealed it back to produce our rainbow fish prints.

My two found the fish very interesting. They were surprised by how sharp it’s teeth were!

We got our inspiration from this picture we found on the web.

February 23, 2014 by tinyadventure

Combining Art Techniques for Toddlers

We are all about Art rather than craft. Free expression and experimentation and if the outcome looks good that is a bonus! Lately we’ve been building up interesting techniques over the top of one another which helps to produce something that is really visually interesting and dramatic (and saves on paper). This lovely piece of paper has had water colour washed over it, it has had painted objects rolled down it, been stencilled with spay paints and had large shapes printed onto it.

Firstly we washed water over it and used water colours.

Secondly we rolled painted objects down it!

Thirdly we printed large shapes on it.

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Thirdly we printed large shapes on it.

Fourthly we used stencils and spray bottles.

Finally we we used wool in glue and paint to do string painting!

After we dragged, dropped and flicked our string, we left some of the string on to dry. Here is our very striking final result.

February 20, 2014 by tinyadventure

Brain Building While Making Colouring Pens MORE Fun!

We’ve been playing around with pens and ways to make them more interesting. We’ve taped pens to coat hangers to make a pair of compasses and to rulers for rainbow drawing. We also tried three pens taped inside a cup to produce triple images!

It is lovely watching them play with the coat hanger compasses, discovering what happens with one pen also happens with the other.