Category Archives: Toddler session

Today our toddler group have made their own animal masks, they got to choose what animal they made; an elephant and a giraffe were chosen.The toddlers drew round the mask templates with a yellow crayon, they then tried drawing the animals ears and horns attached to the mask outline. Initially they had a go atContinue reading “Animal Masks”

During the first half of our session this week the toddlers had lots of fun experimenting with wax resist painting. To begin with they had a massive piece of paper rolled out on the floor to have fun covering! Although they loved uncovering ‘magic pictures’ with the paint the toddlers enjoyed experimenting with colour mixingContinue reading “Exploring Wax Resist Painting and Revisiting Spin Art”

This week our Toddler group had lots of fun experimenting with spin art! To create spin paintings you need white, red, blue and yellow paint, some paper plates and paper. You place two-four blobs of paint on the plate, preferably different colours and spaced apart. Then you place the plate paint side down on theContinue reading “Spin Paintings”

Today we had loads of fun making 3D animals! We used paint, boxes, fabric, googly eyes, glue and cellotape. The Toddler group made two snappy crocodiles and one sleepy hippo, we mixed our own green and brown paint so that we could make our animals the right colours. Next week we are going to exploreContinue reading “Box Modelling Animals”

Today we enjoyed exploring the different materials in our collage box and talking about how they feel. We also enjoyed seeing what colours and shapes we could spot! Next time we are going to make some animals out of boxes and paint them, we will also try mixing our own colours!

Today we had our first Toddler session, our main activity was exploring mark making with paint! We had different shaped sponges, different size brushes, tape, string and plastic palette knives to experiment with! We enjoyed naming the colours and shapes of the sponges, we even had a go at doing some finger painting. It wasContinue reading “Mark Making with Paint”