Take one child (and a Mum!) in wellie boots, a tray of bright paints and lots of cardboard sheets.
Dip feet in paint and walk, stomp, dance, jump and run to your heart’s content!
Create a beautiful, rainbow, mess of colours.
Examine the lovely patterns created from the prints and compare them!
Find other things to dip and print with, or roll with!
What a lovely end result! Abstract toddler art at its finest 🙂
This activity is good for:
* creativity on a large scale
* outdoor play
* colour mixing and exploration
* examining the effect of printing with objects
* comparing big and small prints
* gross motor play: jumping, stomping, striding, tip-toeing, skipping
* having a HUGE amount of fun together (adult participation compulsory!)
Līga Krista says
where do you get so much colour? it is for sure not the “fingerpaint” 🙂
Anna @ The Imagination Tree says
No these are regular kiddie poster paints! No need for edible finger paint in this situation! 😉
rachelle @ tinkerlab says
Beautiful, Anna! Your photos capture the spirit of childhood perfectly. And the butterfly face cracks me up!
rachelle @ tinkerlab says
oh, and forgot to mention that i like your new bloggie look. 🙂
SarahF says
Such fun! look forward to trying that out with the boy during one of Katy’s nap times.
Did you do C’s face? Cute.
Jamie @ hands on : as we grow says
Love love LOVE! I love art on a large scale! We have so many big boxes sitting in our garage right now (I just can’t throw them away… and opportunity like this might come along!) – we will definitely be getting outside soon and doing this!! It looks like she had so much fun!
Kate @ An Amazing Child says
Cakie looks like she is having sooo much fun! Such enthusiasm in her jumps, I can imagine you both giggling away. Hmmm…how could we do this??? No need for wellie boots but I reckon we could strap on our thongs – the shoes that is 🙂 (flip flops) and have a good old dance around. Ahh all the things I’ll be able to do when this little one comes out.
Elle Belles Bows says
How fun!
It makes me want to jump in too!
Kerri
Kristen Waby says
You are my new hero!
Danielle says
Love this activity! We did something similar where we painted with our bare feet after reading Mouse Paint. I can’t wait to try it with rain boots! Adorable!
http://preschoolbookclub.blogspot.com/2010/09/mouse-paint.html
Anna @ The Imagination Tree says
Kate, how about jelly shoes? (do you call them that in Oz?) The cute lil shoes kids wear into the water at the beach. They would leave a lovely print and are washable too 🙂
Anna @ The Imagination Tree says
Yes Sarah I did it- but don’t look too closely! It wouldn’t pass any face painting tests 🙂 But she loved it and is completely obsessed. Best thing I’ve bough recently!
jenny says
Love! We did a similar thing this week, but with bare feet on a big flattened cardboard box (it is still warm over here). I’m going to save the gum boots idea for winter!
Cathy James says
Lovely – hope you had a go too Anna! Thanks for linking up with the Play Academy.
Rachel at Sun Scholars says
Oh my gosh… what fun!!!!
Thank you so much for sharing this at last week’s For the Kids Friday link party! This week’s party is up and running. If you haven’t already stopped by, I’d love to have you sharing again this week!
http://sunscholars.blogspot.com/2011/04/for-kids-friday-6.html
:)rachel
Jamie @ hands on : as we grow says
Hey girl! While you’re on vaca I’m gonna feature this on Friday — Getting some kids moving! 🙂
Jamie
ankle wellies says
oh, and forgot to mention that i like your new bloggie look. 🙂