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Aussie painting & baby’s painting debut

On Thursday we celebrated Australia Day! So for painting day this week we tried aboriginal dot painting.

I traced a kangaroo for Master D to use and gave him some washable finger paint. Before he started we looked at different photos of aboriginal art for inspiration.

Master D enjoyed the feel of the paint on his fingers and before long he started mixing the colours together. Painting with his hands and mixing the colours seem to be his favourite parts of painting!

It was also Little Miss Q’s painting debut – she tried finger painting!! Little Miss Q is now 7 months and I was inspired by Happy Little Munchkins (a fellow Aussie blogging mum) to give it a go 🙂

I was surprised at how fun it was for Little Miss Q… and the clean-up wasn’t as terrible as expected either. I was able to easily wipe away the washable paint.

Mind you, she did try eating her painting midway through (what is it about paper for her!)

Happy painting, Kelly

January 27, 2012 by

Fish!

‘Santa’ made Master D this fishing set for Christmas. He’s had lots of fishing trips since, catching the fishies and putting them in my little old basket 🙂

So, when we came to craft day he asked to make fish. So that’s just what we did 😉 I drew some simple fish on foil, then we put them on an onion bag, rubbing with our fingers to give our fish scales. Master D then coloured his fish using markers and crayons.

Sorry, hard to capture this well but you get the idea

 We found that the crayons helped keep the scale texture but they don’t have the same shine.

Next we used blue watercolour paint to make our ocean.

Painting with a brush takes to long?!
Rightly concerned by the painting method

Adding salt to get some texture. Then we released our fish into the water 😉

Thanks to our lovely friend Nay for the great craft book – The Usborne Book of Art projects that gave us this idea!!

Gone fishing, Kelly

January 7, 2012 by