When I called my young artists to the table for their art time, they were just a little bit excited: And so they should have been! We had made some home-made paints during our science time the day before and we coloured some foam with food colourings to give us a very different textured paint. …
Category: Preschool Art Activities
Young Scientists at Play: Making Paints and Goop
Sunday night I made up some base for the paints I want my little scientists to make tomorrow to use in their 'Artists at Play' hour on Tuesday. Basically paint is thickened colour so I mixed some water, with thickener (flour) and ended up with a white base: I made it a little thicker than…
Young Artists at Play: Coloured Foam
When my two little girls were even littler I used to put shaving foam in a zip lock bag for them to play with. It never held their attention for a huge amount of time, but then I had never thought to put food colouring along side it. It was this which gave me a seed of…
Young Artists at Play
A few weeks ago I started what was to become affectionately known in our house as 'Young Scientists at Play'. This was one hour on a Monday for my two younger daughters to play at being scientists. The theme was colour and the learning was open-ended and all about discovery. Well, during these one hour slots,…