wooden spoon puppets

Quick post with an idea for something to do over the weekend perhaps?

As often is the case pinterest was the inspiration for this! I picked up some cheap wooden spoons from the supermarket - 30p each! but you could use old ones or look in charity shops etc. 

We just used felt tips, foam shape stickers and of course googly eyes! all available at art and craft shops and often at supermarkets too.

I did this on holiday with children aged 2-5. You could add making clothes for the puppets for older children or making puppets for a specific story (little red riding hood, goldilocks etc) 

The children came up with the idea of making faces on the back of  the puppets, goodies and baddies!

We used the same idea to make monster puppets for a halloween party and I'm thinking about pirate puppets for a birthday party that is coming up soon!

Have a nice weekend!

BYE!

What to do with all those paintings....

I've only got one in full time painting production mode at the moment but once her sister joins in I think we are going to have to move house (again) to accommodate the results! We have a "gallery"   I'm not good at changing the pictures over but there are some good ideas I've found to make that easier on my "what do to with all those paintings" board on Pinterest. Apart from displaying their paintings and drawings the other good use I've found is to turn them into cards, thank you cards, birthday cards etc

The painting/drawing needs to be on reasonably thick paper but sugar paper works fine (these were done on lining paper) These were made from a big painting we did on paper on the floor and just cut up. You could add drawing, stickers, glitter, collage, appropriate number for someone's birthday etc. You could also cut a squre from a painting and glue it onto folded card for a greetings card or just flat card to turn it into a post card.

You could also cut shapes out of a painting or drawing and arrange them onto another piece of paper or card to make a greetings card or a picture to be framed. This is a nice parent child collaboration or something an older sibling could do.

The small hearts were cut from tin foil that M had painted onto. She had a go at her own design as well.

 See Here is another nice example of  this idea.

Any other good ideas for what to do with all those paintings would be very welcome!

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painting at the beach

As it is another lovely sunny day here in Brighton today I thought I'd post the photos from last week incase anyone was thinking of a trip to the beach today!

All you need to take with you is a couple of not too thick paintbrushes, a box of paints , could be watercolours or gouache, some paper or a little sketch pad, A pot to put some water in and perhaps some water, although obviously there is also a ready supply of this at the beach but you may want to avoid wet feet in the winter!

M just got on with it herself mainly, she's enjoying mixing colours at the moment. We put stones on the paper to stop them blowing away. She painted stones too see here and here for more pebble painting and drawing ideas and have a look at my at the beach board on raindrops and paint pots Pinterest

M did some drawing too....always a good idea to bring some felt tips to the beach.

Lastly we did some painting with just water - so no mess at all! this works really well on paving slabs too.

Nothing complicated, just a few ideas to try. We had a hot chocolate afterwards to warm up!

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printing and painting

Just a quite share of couple of photos of some things we've done recently. I'll get a full post up about at least one of the activities in the next few days.

A rainy Tuesdsay spent painting, printing and stamping on a big piece of paper on the kitchen floor
(followed by a bath!)

A sunny Tuesday spent at the beach using some watercolours to mix colours and paint pictures and pebbles.
(followed by a hot chocolate!)