Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Rainbows


The Zebra saw a rainbow in the sky this morning and just loved it, so this afternoon we tried to make our own!


You can use 7 different paints, or just use the base 4 and mix them for the orange, green and violet.


We've been learning colours recently, so I've cut a piece of card into 7 strips to make colour flash-cards.


The Zebra had an amazing time painting all the different strips in every colour! 


And it wasn't just the strips that got coloured! How fab is this backing paper :) 


Tuesday, 5 January 2016

Tweet Tweet!

Tweet tweet tweet!! So it would seem today is national bird day (thanks again Google!), which makes another great theme for some crafts. I don't really know many birds so thought I'd go with the English robin and a colourful parrot.

As always, just basic materials needed - white paper can be used but I went for green and blue card - green jungle for the parrot and blue wishy-washy winter sky for the robin.
The Zebra loves nothing more than painting with her hands and feet and was more than pleased for me to paint the blue and yellow to make the parrots body 

After you've made your foot print, paint the hand with yellow and blue. Put the palm of the hand onto the toes, so the fingers point down and create tail feathers.

The robins are much easier, just two brown footprints! Use each foot once so the birds are looking at each other on paper.

Add a brown branch, orange beak and googley eye to complete the parrot...

...and a red tummy in the foot instep, orange beak and googley eyes for the robins!

While I finished the birds, I let the Zebra have some good free-play with the paints - she really does love it!

Tweet!


Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Christmas Painting

I realised today that we hadn't done any painting in a long time, so this afternoon we had a bit of free-play with the paints. 
Before the Zebra had even put brush to paper, she started to paint her feet!!
This was followed by lots of stomping on the paper. Clearly her foot-painting at nursery had left a favourable impression...
We had to have a quick break from painting so the Zebra could feed her fish! 
With toes totally covered, it was time to move onto hands...
She had great fun just letting loose with all the paints and brushes 
Once I had put the prints up to dry, I realised they would make great wrapping paper for presents! 
I glued one sheet of paper around a toilet roll tube, then pinched in the ends to make a gift box for a little pressie!
Some of the better footprints got turned into Christmas trees...
...adding a bow turned these into mistletoes!