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Splatter Painting

Category Art and Craft

Children will enjoy banging wooden spoons to watch the paint splatter to create works of art. 

Use coloured hair ties for children to begin to recognise and understand patterns and hand/eye coordination. 

A great way to recycle cereal boxes and have children create themselves using recycled materials.

Name Collage

Category Art and Craft

A fun activity for children to collage their name and get to know each other.

Create colourful soaked prints using a paper towel and watercolours.

Drip Prints

Category Art and Craft

Create colourful patterns from watercolour drips!

Encourage children to learn colours by sorting coloured pompoms into the correctly coloured block.

A sweet flower bouquet full of a child's fingerprints that can be kept forever.

Materials Needed:

  • Coloured paper.
  • Acrylic paint – pink, red, purple, blue, yellow, etc.
  • Green marker
  • Ribbon
  • Glue dots
  • Scissors

What to do:

  • Begin by making a square from the cardboard.
  • Fold one corner up until it makes a triangle. Then trim away the excess paper.
  • Unfold the triangle and place in front of you like a diamond. Fold one side over where it makes a point on the bottom. Then fold the other side, overlapping the first side, meeting at the point on the bottom.
  • Fold the overlapped points back. Then fold into place to make sure it’s positioned correctly.

  • Unfold the front flaps of the paper and begin making flowers.
  • Simply dip a child's fingertip into each coloured paints and dab the paper with dots
  • Let the flowers dry.
  • Use the green marker to draw stems and leaves down from the flowers
  • Finish the flower bouquet by cutting a strand of ribbon. Apply a glue dot to stick to the back of the paper and keep in place.

Hints and Tips:

  • Use glitter paints
  • Use child's drawings as bouquet wrapper
  • Get the child to decorate the wrapping

Reference: 
Mother's Day Flower Bouquet, Our Kids Things

Bunny Photo Frames

Category Art and Craft

Create a simple and cute bunny photo frame for Easter.

An easy paper craft for children to create where they can practice their fine motor skills. Great activity for Easter.

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