My funny alien

The children at sensory club are great at feeling different textures of materials and discovering unique purposes for them. We watched a small cartoon about aliens and I presented the children with these materials.

They were inspired by the cartoon and discovered that they could glue and wrap tissue paper around the bottles. 

 Then they stuck google eyes and a mouth to make their alien.

 Some had three eyes!

 Some used pipeline cleaners to make funny antennas for their alien.

 Everyone was very pleased with their products. Well done Sensory club!

Scrape painting is a super art process for colour mixing! Using just red, yellow and blue paint the kids created bold and colourful works of art with an amazing range of new colours.

They played with shapes and tried quick scrapes, slow scrapes, light and hard, adding depth and texture to their paintings.  Ultimately, they had a blast scrape painting and revelled in the chance to swap the paint brushes for something new – scrap cardboard!

Dream catching!

This week, we made dreamcatchers! The children learned about the story of dream catchers and were very excited to make their own. They wove string through the holes by themselves, this showed me how great their gross motor skills were. Then, they let their creative sides loose by painting their dreamcatchers in bright, vibrant colours, and sprinkling glitter to give it that extra sparkle!

I was unable to take a lot of photos as I was hands in painting along with the children, but here are their finished work - look how great they did!!

I will send them home today so that your kids can keep away all their bad dreams, tonight! :)

Look at the colours on my autumn tree!

We had a great time at sensory club talking about seasons around the world. The children liked the colours they saw on the trees in autumn, so we decided to make our own autumn trees! We painted with sponges and the trees came out beautiful and unique! It was lovely to see how each child used the sponge differently. They liked seeing the patterns that the two sides of the sponge could produce; some used both sides on their paintings while some stuck to the side they liked most. Look at some of the beautiful trees they painted!

Who knew that such magic could be made from old bottle tops and toilet rolls? The perfect craft to explore shape, colour and texture, creating a spectacular piece of art in the process!

We had so much fun looking for circles and I loved how the children seemed to look at items with new eyes; weighing up their printing potential and thinking ‘outside the box’. For very young children, this is a great way to introduce shapes.