PAINTING FUN!

Since toddlers love to try out many things at once, this week I brought the Sweetpeaz group paint with all kinds of tools to paint with. First, they started off with fingerpainting and cookie cutters for printing. Then, we added baloons, cars and brushes. Doing art with kids this age is really all bout the process and not the final product, so I put out a large sheet of paper for a big group painting!

Squeezing out paint directly from the paint bottle "on my own"!



Finger, hands and also body painting is a great way to start getting know the material...

The kids all tried out the different tools, such as classic paintbrushes, cookie cutters that make great prints when dipped into paint and smashed onto the paper, cars to roll through the paint or directly on the color plate, and also trying out to walk with bare feet onto the paint! So much experimenting!

Then, we moved to the water bucket for washing off the paint and the tools, but mostly for water fun!

A close up of the group painting!







PAINTED WOOD SCULPTURE

We had a very small group this week with the big kids, since many were away because of the holiday, but we made wonderful creations of wooden pieces and sticks glued to a base. The kids decided that their theme of the sculptures would be their homes and they each told a story about their work. After lots of gluing we painted the "houses" and of course added glitter!



FINGERPAINTING

With the little Sweetpeaz we did fingerpainting this week! To introduce the young kids to painting, it is very good to start with fingerpainting so they can feel the paint and its texture - an important sensory activity. They can mix the colors by hand and spread it onto the paper. Some of the kids don't immediately jump into the experience with their hands, so I gave them sticks to start with, so they'll get confident with it. Then, I brought them toy cars so they could zoom them through the paint. Lots of fun!

After this colorful activity, we moved to the water bucket for getting even messier with water and clean up the tools and their painted bodies! Cleaning up is for kids this age so much fun, so here they are encouraged to do this (almost) on their own. It was a creative and messy session!