Its time for the Kids Coop. Please link up your child based posts and check out what others have been up to. It would be great if you visited a few and left some comments. This week I'm linking up the following:
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(Goblin is 40 months)
While we were on holiday in Wales Goblin started showing a real interest in fish - in the supermarket, on the beach, and watching TV. I took advantage of his self selected topic to do some art with him.
A lot of our art, especially painting, is very open ended and more about process than product. But this time I made it more directed by cutting craft foam fish shapes for him to paint. When he'd completed the body I got him to choose the colours for the eyes, tail and fins and glue them on.
Its been a while since we did any painting and I was excited to see that Goblin was actually using the brush - he previously would ditch it in favour of hands.
I painted some fish along side him, and he noticed I was doing stripes and asked me to show him how to do them, I held his hand and showed him how to make a clean line. Then let him try. He made a lovely stripy fish.
He enjoyed the activity so much that he asked to do it again for the next three days. We made a lot of fish. And over the three days I was able to convince him to mix less paint together - thus avoiding so many brown fish! And to try some more techniques like spots and wiggles. He even asked for a turtle and a tortoise too.
We stuck the entire aquarium to our art wall when we got home. What do you think?
And now to the linky
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Thanks for hosting - love the fish, they look fantastic! Where were you in Wales - thought it looked like the Gower which is one our big faves - Alice
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed the Gower
DeleteOh now I am jealous. So many happy memories of Oxwich Bay - quite a lot of them in the rain :-)
DeleteLovely. It really looks like an aquarium with your blue walls.
ReplyDeletei love your fishy art!
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteOh my, your fish are gorgeous! What a fantastic fishy wall... love them all.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
love these fish:-)
ReplyDeleteOh, what beautiful fish!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!
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