We have been having fun today, well actually the boys have been having fun and I have mainly been tidying up! Jakob wanted to paint - so I set out his paints and paper, as usual I put some random objects out in case he wants to paint with them - things like cookie cutters, sponges, blocks... whatever they fancy!
Today Jakob gravitated towards the heart shapes (hence the valentines day post!) - this wasn't intentional, and I didn't just put out hearts!
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| Heart sponge dipped in red, pink and white paint |
Because he was enjoying using the heart sponge and cookie cutter, I bent a toilet roll tube into a (semi?) heart shape, carved a little mini heart in a carrot and gave him a heart Christmas tree decoration from out box of ones we need to restring!
In the picture below he used a heart sponge and dipped it into red paint to print the heart shapes on to the paper. The then dipped a heart shaped cookie cutter into pink paint to stamp. He said that he preferred it on the red as it looked nicer - I agree! He then drew around the (clean) heart sponge, I think he did pretty well considering it's squishy and moved as he was doing it!
Since he was having so much fun stamping I got out some of my letter stamps and he started stamping valentines. Then he found there was a heart (as well as other symbols) with the letters and got excited stamping that instead!
For this picture he was stamping with the cookie cutter and I said - why don't you paint some of them? He painted one and said he liked it and wanted to leave it like that, so he did!
If you've got this far then please have a look at my valentines pinterest board and follow me on pinterest for lot's of other great kids activity ideas :)