Category Archives: Toddler session

This week the toddlers have enjoyed exploring mark making with paint, acorns, pine cones, leaves and sponges. The first experiment we tried out was rolling acorns through paint, to begin with the acorns kept getting stuck in the paint but after a few pushes they began rolling better. For our second experiment we had differentContinue reading “Mark Making with Autumn Found Objects – Paint”

This week our toddler group have been exploring mark making with leaves, they also had access to a piece of grass and some bark. The leaves were different ones I found around Belper whilst on a walk, I tried to find different shapes to make it more interesting.We used thin paper, graphite sticks, chalk pastelsContinue reading “Mark Making with Leaves – Graphite and Chalk Pastels”

This week our Toddler group had lots of fun exploring the texture of paint with their hands and experimenting with tape resist painting! We also had brushes available for anyone who was worried about touching the paint at first. In the end everyone enjoyed getting stuck in and loved peeling the masking tape off andContinue reading “Paint Texture and Tape Resist Exploration”

This week the toddler group are going to explore press painting. Instead of just the usual butterflies used in early press painting exploration we decided to also have some ladybirds and houses available for the children to choose from. We tried out using paint brushes and squeezing the paint from the bottle directly onto theContinue reading “Press Painting Insects and Houses”

This week the children had lots of fun exploring fizzy painting. To make a fizzy painting you need bicarbonate of soda, plastic cups, distilled vinegar, food colouring, pipettes and water colour paper.The first thing we did was mix food colouring with the distilled vinegar (the red, pink and orange look very similar in colour onContinue reading “Fizzy Painting”

This week the toddlers had lots of fun exploring bubble painting! We mixed paint with washing up liquid and a small amount of water, we then used sponges to mark make on the paper!We had the little Crayola paint pots so it was easy to add extra colours to our palette trays and see whatContinue reading “Bubble Painting”

Today our toddler group had lots of fun exploring gravity through splat painting! We rolled out a large piece of paper and placed trays of paint and different objects around the paper. We had plastic eggs, feathers, four different sponges, spaghetti, buttons, shells, pipe cleaners, socks, beaded necklaces, beaded bracelets, cotton reels and two chunkyContinue reading “Splat Painting!”

This week the Toddler group had lots of fun trying out foam marble painting with water colour paint. The children enjoyed spreading the foam in their tray, using a pipette to add colour and stirring everything together with a chop stick and then making a print on the paper. Unfortunately the foam print did notContinue reading “Foam Painting”

This week the Toddler group had lots of fun exploring mark making with different tools in playdough and making some clay art to take home using the mark making techniques they tried out with the playdough. Testing out mark making with feathers, shells and some of the stone jewellery was lots of fun! It wasContinue reading “Exploring Mark Making in Playdough and Clay”

This morning our toddler group has had loads of fun exploring mark making in paint using different tools and materials. We had some different shaped flowers, brushes, plastic palette knives, bubble wrap, noodles, different sponges, netting from packs of oranges, cardboard and our own hands!We also had a go at making magic paint by mixingContinue reading “Exploring mark making with different textures”