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Butterfly Symmetry Painting
I helped Derek squeeze blobs of paint onto one side of a large piece of paper. Then I folded it in half and had Derek press down on the paper and spread the paint around. When we opened it up it made a really neat […]
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Egg Carton Caterpillar
Painted an egg carton and turned it into a caterpillar. We got to use some recycled stuff and Derek enjoyed the different material to paint on today. He also loves the hungry caterpillar book. Happy Earth Day.
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Do A Dot Shapes
We didn’t have any do a dot markers so we improvised. First we used paint and a q-tip. This didn’t go as planned as Derek just wanted to draw and scribble on the paper with the paint and q-tip completely ignoring the intention of the […]
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Easter Hand & Foot Painting
Derek enjoyed getting his hand painted. His foot was a bit ticklish but he still let me paint it. The end result turned out great.
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Painting Rocks
Derek enjoys painting and liked painting the rocks. His favorite part was putting glitter on the rocks. This was done with washable kid paint so we will see how the right is hold up when we take them outside.
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Painting A Bird House
Bird house built courtesy of OPA. Derek couldn’t stop asking about the bird house as he knew we were going to be painting the bird house today. Derek enjoyed painting the bird house. He kept talking about the bird that may live there and how […]
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Ice Cube – Colour Mixing
I kind of messed up by putting the wrong ice cube into the wrong container of water. Also the colours didn’t turn out all that good. It’s a pretty cool activity if everything goes properly so do give it a try. Derek liked playing with […]
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Ice Cube – Painting
Mix water and paint and freeze in ice cube trays. Once frozen paint using two primary colours and as the paint cubes melt the colours will mix. This didn’t quite go as planned. The paint cubes didn’t melt as fast as I was expecting so […]
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Hand Print – Colour Mixing
Mixing primary colours to make secondary colours. Paint your child’s hand a primary colour and make a hand print. Paint other hand a different colour and make a hand print. Add more paint to hands, rub them together creating a new colour and make hand […]
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Colour Collage
Pick a coloured paper and glue items and glitter of chosen colour onto the paper. Let dry and continue if interest allows. Derek wasn’t very interested in today’s activity. He needed some encouragement to continue and add more to his picture and didn’t want to […]