Letters of the Alphabet Toddler Activity

We began getting familiar with the letters of the alphabet when my daughter was 2 (she is now 3). And that is exactly what it is-getting familiar!!!! In my opinion there is no right or wrong time to introduce literacy to children, the earlier the better! While they may not recite the letters, or even …

Flowers and Paint Stamping

We had quite a few flowers remaining after our dyed flowers experiment, so we decided to get creative with some flower and paint stamping.  I offered my little girl 3 colors of paint and 3 flowers to stamp to her hearts delight. We used poster paints from Woolworths. And the same white sprays we used in …

DIY Chalk Paint

Today we made chalkpaint. I didnt have the usual ingredients for it so we made a compromised version: 2 parts water 1 part cornflour Foodcolour (Although i added more conflour about a tablespoon extra because i found it too runny) This paint is super awesome if filled in squeeze bottles like in the picture above. …

Mixed Media Art

Mixed Media Art by my 6 year old. We used different mediums to create this work of art. 1. Mummy drew some clouds on a piece of contact paper and 6year old cut them out and pasted them onto some paper. 2. We mixed some powder paint and threw in some glitter and she got …

Family tree

A few years ago we decided to paint a family tree on the garage/toy room wall. The kids absolutely enjoyed this. And around it went all the toys. We rearranged this room so many times over and since then we've also repainted it. This time with chalk board paint so the kids have an entire …

Hand and Foot Prints

I love this activity and we've done it over and over and over. I just love the way the kids would giggle when i would paint the bottoms of their feet. Here they are ages 7, 4 & 3. I didnt capture a picture of the foorprints though, by then things had gotten quite messy

Easter Handprint and Egg Coloring Activity

We modified the original craft i took from DLTK-Kids a little bit, i helped each child to outline their hand and arm directly onto the wall in our garage and then paint it in to serve as the tree trunk. We then drew around it until we had a complete picture. I downloaded an Easter …