Ideas for"rainy days". Also check out Fun & Games.



Collage and Pasting Fun

• Nature:  Have children make a collage using items collected on a anture walk. (ideas:  leaves, flowers, sticks, etc.)
  
• Fabric:  Have children glue various sized, shaped, and textured scraps of fabric onto cardboard or posterboard.
  
• Pasta:  Dye various sized and shaped pastas using the directions on my recipe page. Have children glue to cardboard or thread through string to make jewlery.
  
• Yarn:  Children can make desins using scarps of yarn and glue.
  
• Egg Shells:  Children can make a collage using peices of colored egg shells.
  
• Beans:  Use various types of beans to create a collage. Beans work good for flower shapes.
  
• Crayon Shavings:  Place crayon shavings and small peices between two peices of waxed paper. Iron with warm iron. This makes a pretty sun catcher. You can then decorate edges with a construction paper boarder.

• Blot Painting:  Fold a peice of paper in half, crease, then open. Using a dropper, have child place sev drops of tempora paint on one half of paper. Fold paper back over and press. Have child try to tell you what they see in the paint design.
  
• Paint Wash Over:  Have children draw a picture of things they see in the ocean. Using watered down blue tempera, brush over the whole picture till it looks as if it is under the water.
  
• Glue Prints:  The day before, "draw" pictures on cardboard using glue. Note:  Draw words backwords. After glue is completely dry, press design into paint and press onto paper.
  
• Vegee Prints:  Use raw vegetables to stamp designs onto paper. You can make desings on wrapping paper or cards.
  
• Thumb Print Fun:  Press childrens thumbs into paint then onto paper. Have children draw faces and bodies on the prints to make animals and people.
  
• Hand Print Turkey:  Press childs entire hand into paint then onto paper. Child can use feathers and paper scraps to make a turkey. (The thumb is the turkeys head.)

• Colored celery:  Place several drops of natural food coloring into a glass of water. Stand celery in glass and leave overnight. Color will travel up celery stalk.
  
• Doddle Pad:  Fill a zipper bag with thick tempera paint. You can palce several colors side by side for cool effect. Seal bag tightly and place upside down inside of another bag. Tape shut. Children can "draw" designs in paint.