Creating summer mood

Maria 3.5 y.

There is a snowstorm, dark and cold outside and, therefore, we decided to organize a piece of summer in our flat by drawing, gluing and making some attributes of this warm and green time.

1.       Summer field with flowers and insects

Painted with watercolours, made flower stamps out of the toilet paper reel, modeled insects out of clay. We prepared the ladybirds according to the guidelines and then sticked them to the summer field. The whole work was purely done by Maria – I just helped to cut out the ladybirds.

2.       Fun and easy summer scenery we made pretty fast thanks to these videos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. The exciting part of this work is that it grabs the attention of the very active children: you don’t have to care about your accuracy, you don’t have to care too much about the colours you use and it is very interesting to figure out what kind of animal you’ve painted.

3.       Salt Dough Cornflowers

Salt dough (2 glasses of flour, a glass of salt, a glass of water) is really good one for the finger work out. Besides, one can realize his talent when modeling some figures. Another benefit is its cost compared to  the pricey colourful dough found in the craft sets.

 We used the dough to make a panel with cornflowers and a ladybird. We made the buds of cornflowers out of plastic teaspoons, coloured them in blue with acrylic paints, snapped the edges and fixed them in the dough. Then, dried the panel in the oven and finished the panel with the acrylic painting.