Matilda LOVES painting & getting really messy... so I use food colouring and water with a dash of corn flour in it and we go on the verandah lined with newspaper & paint away. I use her nappy & I have a bucket there for the initial wash off before we go inside. She's been doing this since she was a year now. We also did playdough just over 12 months. I know for some people its worse because it crumbles & gets into everything, but its another outside activity where we sit at the table & pound away.
Drawing with gigantic crayons was a great start... sure it was just moving it around but she soon started loving it.
*sand box
*gardening (We have started a herb pot just for her to play in & snack at)
*picking flowers in the garden
*doing plant art work (taping leaves & grass to paper...)
*music & dance = making shakers with rice & pasta & baby food jars and stickers, then putting on some goofy Wiggles cd & going nuts
*bubbles - I make up a bucket of bubbles & give her a cupful and a wand... she loves it.
*bubble art - just add food colouring
Thats all my ideas atm... we are making up bubbles today for some fun. We used to do heaps more water play in summer but being in the drought we can't. We used to do buckets with drops of food colouring & pouring with tea sets etc etc... but can't do that now.
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