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It’s heart-tastic in our house at the moment! We’ve been using hearts to practice numeracy and adding up skills and now it’s time to do some creating ♥…
Try out a simple activity involving marbles, paint and a tray! Miss 5 set this up all by herself whilst I was busy tidying up – I love that it was completely self-directed! She had done this at pre-school and so I discovered a little of what she gets up to during her days in class. I also loved that the method didn’t involve too much mess…
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This is one of these activities that literally took under 5 minutes to set up and was such a GREAT unexpected hit! We have so many wonderful children’s art books, including The Art Book for Children (click here for our US readers) and whilst flicking through it, I was drawn to the page on Miró. It mentioned that “Joan Miró’s art teacher once asked him to try drawing simple shapes, like circles, rectangles, stars and triangles, wearing a blindfold.”…
We like to try different mediums and methods for painting. Today, I set the table and we did some ‘knife & fork painting’!
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A very wise friend of mine once told me it was about the process and not the product when it came to children being creative. …