Easter Discovery Fun

Here are some ideas to keep you busy over Easter....

Firstly here's a little tub of mess that's a whole lot of fun!

I had a look around the house to see what I could find - Easter decorations, eggs, chicks, feathers and tipped it into the tub.  

The great thing about the plastic eggs (that are meant for egg hunts) is that you can hide things inside them which makes them great fun for cracking open.  I added lentils to cover the base of the tray so when you add some lentils into the eggs, they become great little shakers!

There are lots of textures in this tub so it kept little one amused for quite a while and it's something he's gone back to quite a few times now.




We've also been doing some printing in spring colours - super simple circles!  I used a little tub for him to print with as it was easy for him to hold but you could also use one half of the plastic Easter egg.









And finally we've been talking about yellow and collecting yellow things in our basket.  
Easy!!

Happy Easter everyone!

Car Printing

It's been a while since we had the paint out so today we decided to have another go.
We started with the little brushes and printing pads but he just wanted to lick them again and I seemed to be doing most of the actual painting.

Then I remembered when I worked with under fives that we sometimes used cars for printing with.  









Monty is just loving cars just now so we had a go at rolling it through the paint and suddenly he was more interested in watching the tracks appear instead of licking the paint. 

Rolling very fast!

Not bad for a first painting is it...and he did it all by himself.

But I couldn't resist using up the leftover paint at the end by taking a print with the paper. 


Now I just need to find a spot to hang them!