Kids of all ages seem to really enjoy making prints by rubbing a crayon over paper with a shape underneath. Maybe it’s because the image seems to “magically” appear! This activity has a little twist to it that your child will love – and it’s perfect for some open-ended St. Patrick’s Day artistic play!
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Make a Colourful Melted Crayon Window Shade
When my family moved into a new house a couple of years ago, we instantly fell in love with the fireplace, the neighbourhood with it’s beautiful red maple trees, and the lush garden in the backyard thanks to the green thumb of the past residents. What we didn’t like was the view out the back window…rear…
Painting with Mirrors: Simple Process Art
This month I joined in on a huge Paint-a-Thon challenge with other kid bloggers. Last week, we played around with some homemade spicy scented sensory paint, and this week we tried exploring with painting with mirrors. Read on to check out the fun we had!
How to Make Spicy Scented Sensory Paint
This month I joined in on a huge Paint-a-Thon challenge with other kid bloggers. Our task was to create an original painting idea for kids and I think Onetime and I did it! Onetime had so much fun when we used spices to do some open-ended art and math last month, that when I suggested we…
EASY Seedy CD Art and Science
Last year, my then 2.5 year old son Onetime and I had a blast finding seeds outside and starting a seed collection. We also went on an indoor search for seeds. After learning a little bit about what seeds are (that’s the science part!), we had an all-seed snack and then made this fun open-ended seedy CD…