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Teeter Totter ~ Finding a Balance Between Me-Hood and Motherhood
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Art Time!
Nature is in full bloom and all these colors on display turn my thoughts to art. There are so many fun activities you can do with your child at a very young age to whet their appetite and passion for color, line, shape, form, etc… Here’s a few ideas to get you started this weekend. - Springtime Collage Buy a cheap disposable camera (or use an old digital camera.) Give it to your child! Take them on a short walk (or even just around your backyard) and tell them to “Take pictures of Spring!” Develop (or print out) the pictures and sit down as a family. Talk about them. You can help your child make them into a book, or even a photo collage (with child-safe scissors and a glue stick.) Attach them to an inexpensive blank canvas (even Wal Mart sells these in the craft isle) for a unique, personalized piece of art! - Pressed Flowers Go for a nature walk. Pick flowers. Press them between sheets of wax paper in heavy books. Wait a week. Show them to the children! You can even layer them between contact paper (w/ or w/o stickers) to make beautiful spring bookmarks. Or used the pressed flowers in your “Springtime Collage” (see above.) - Nature Painting Collect some “nature items” (leaves, flowers, grass, whatever strikes you.) Set out some child-safe paint (not acrylic) and paper. Let them children use the nature items rather than brushes! Again, you could even do this on canvas rather than paper. Using only primary colors (red, yellow and blue) add to the learning and fun as they mix their own green, orange and purple! - Blown Eggs For school aged children, poke a little hole in the top and bottom of eggs. Blow egg goo out into a bowl (you can later make scrambled eggs and eat them!). Let the children paint, color or decorate the eggs in any way they want. A fun alternative to just “dying” eggs and they’ll last! - Outside Fun! Of course, art and the outdoors go together like mac and cheese! Here’s a few things to do outside… -Bring a blanket outside and do play dough! -Sidewalk chalk your whole driveway (or sidewalk) Done? Then get it wet and draw with wet chalk (the colors will be more saturated in hue.) -Use gathered items to make a “fairy house.” -“Paint” the house (or sidewalk) with a bucket of water and real house painting brushes and rollers. (The Dollar Tree has both of these items.) -Take “messy” painting outside. Let your child finger paint. Layer paper, foil, tape and other objects over their art as they create. When “done” peel off and see what you have! -“Paint” with squirt bottles of diluted water color on paper. You can also place found objects on the paper, then spray, and you’ll have only the outline left (a good science project that show’s object resistance and solidity!) Have a wonderful weekend full of play, discovery and memories! 1 comments from 1 users
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LoriA
on Mar 27, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Love these ideas! Thank you! :)
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