Mark Making: Steamy Windows

Drawing on steamy windows is another wonderful way to explore mark-making. In the winter when the Playbus windows steamed up so much, we’d often use the opportunity to draw different types of faces on the windows as a way of talking about and exploring emotions with young children.

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Mark Making with Veg

You may be quite familiar with potato stamps, but what if we use other vegetables, or even fruit, as stamps.. How about exploring the idea of symmetry by cutting them in half, or simply studying patters? Feel free to try this with any vegetable or fruit!

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Mark Making: Frozen Chalk Paint

Having so much fun with colourful cornflour paint here! Cornflour paint is just a mixture of cornflour, water and food colouring, and is great because it dries to chalk… then can just be brushed or washed away!

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Mark Making: Drawing in Loose Materials

No felt tip pens or crayons at home? No need! You can practice mark-making in all kinds of ways, from using a stick or draw in dirt, to making patterns in a tray of dried lentils. Your little one will still get the benefit of exercising their fine motor skills and seeing how their movements […]

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Mark Making: Tracing Shadows

Here’s a fun thing to do with your toddler if it’s sunny outside: shadow tracing using a mixture of cornflour, food colouring and water, which will be your chalk paint (but using water as “paint” is quite fun too)! In this video our colleague is even using brushes made from twigs and leaves. Enjoy a […]

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