arround christmas and easter, i keep some of the gift wrap, and chocolate foil (ya know the coulored easter eggs one?) sometimes cut it up, or rip it up and they glue it onto paper, toilet rolls ect. cotton balls are great, so is cut up sponges, diffrent things to glue down, leaves and sticks are also favourites.
if you can get sponges big enough, cut them into shapes and youve got your own paint stampers (cheeper then store bought ones to)
not one of my faves, but the kids love it, playgroup has a "messy day" the 2 fave things all the kids love, is the foam table, homebrand shaving foam and food colour they mix it, make pictures in it (id recoment a good thick plastic cover for the table/surface you use!) also there hands may stay the color you chose for a while.
another mees day fave is a large container of the gelli baff stuff.
ahh theres heaps but ive just gone blank!! will come back if i have any "brain waves" very unlikly!
Nothing like a cuddle from DD after a hard day's work!
Oct 2007
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Dd loves watching mr maker and we get heap sof ideas from him. I just let her go wild with paddle pop sticks, card board and glue cos sje love cutting things and sticking it onto the paddle pop.
at the moment we are making a paper mache pig. I just got a ballon and mached it with some corn flour glue and then going to use egg carton for the snout and the legs.
This morning we made toilet roll valentines butterflies for DP tomorrow (although DD1 couldn't help herself and HAD to show him hers )
HERE are pics of the girls making them (4 pics i think) - is a locked BB album.
I think they did a FANTASTIC job.
DD1 did all the gluing and they both did drawing and stickers and DD1 was in charge of the glitter
i Have a book here somewhere called 365 craft things for kids.
some are to advanced but some are like ships out of tissue boxes.
tv out of cereal box.
stained glass windows with cellophane,
fishes out of paper plates.
paint squish butterflies ( dollop few bits of paint in middle of page and fold in half and squish
love those butterflies hun sooo cute
lanterns with paper, fold paper in half length ways, get girls to cut strips or diagonals then unfold and join the short ends together to make a circle.. very sweet
Polystyrene shapes they can decorate (we made hearts this week)
Dye some rice with food colouring and then they 'draw' with white glue and sprinkle the rice on
oh Kawazuki we made lanterns this week too!
I always have a pad of coloured paper, newspaper, old scrapbook papers (DD loves it when I clean out my scrapbook stash).
Shaving cream prints are fun - I either use the table outside or the paddling pool to contain it
Wow so many great ideas there guys!!! Ah I loved Mister Maker while it was on ABC and DS got really excited watching it with me.....but he just has no interest in anything other than crayons and colouring books!!
When I have tried to set up some painting or cut and paste type things he gets angry, throws the paint brush or whatever at me and runs away lol he's not 2 yet so Im kinda hoping its just a phase lol
very unlikly!
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