Happy Whimsical Hearts

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 Kelly

Happy lil ❤’s are baking #4

What did you bake with your little ones this week? Or, if you don’t have anything new we’d love to see something from your archives 😉

Below is a linky list to join in the fun and start sharing what you bake with your children so we can inspire each other. Family favourites, new recipes, traditional or cultural recipes – you name it, we’d like to read about them and if you include the details, try them out 🙂

For our baking day this week Master D and I made ANZAC biscuits. These biscuits are a traditional biscuit in Australia and New Zealand (they stand for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) and a version were made and sent to our soldiers during WW1.

So because today is ~ Australia Day ~ they seemed appropriate 🙂 You need:

3/4 cup rolled oats

1/2 cup sugar

3/4 cup coconut

3/4 cup flour

2 tbsp golden syrup

1 tsp bicarb

2 tbsp hot water

1/2 cup butter