Mark Making with Herbal Teabags
Have you tired mark-making with tea bags? Herbal tea bags smell amazing and make some lovely colours!
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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: 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 impact the world around them!
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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: Home Made Paints
If you’ve run out of paint, not to worry – here’s how to make it at home using salt, flour, water and food colouring!
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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: Story Time! “Monsters Love Colours”
“Monsters Love Colours”, a book by Mike Austin, is one of our favourites, which is why we acted it out in such a silly way! What is your favourite colour?
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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 bit of nature play!
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