Spring is here, Yay!!! and what better way to celebrate but to decorate the house with spring bunting!!! On this occasion, home made bunting made by your children!!! You’re probably thinking, why on earth would I want to get a sewing machine out with a child aged between 0-6 years!!! (Much as I would absolutely love to, I just don’t have that skill!!! YET!!!!) Well, with this activity you don’t need to be able to sew, just the paints…eek!!! So much fun and so effective, you’ll be returning to this activity for days!!!
what yo
u need…
- paint (preferably spring colours, I chose white, yellow, green)
- paintbrush
- coloured paper or card
- scissors
- holepunch
- ribbon
what to do…
- allow the children to paint free style, whatever, however, wherever they like, on the paper!!!
- allow the paintings to dry
- once the paintings are dry, either ask a child to cut out triangles from the paper/card or cut them out yourself
- when you have a sufficient number of cut triangles, find your hole punch
- punch 2 holes in 2 corners of the triangle cut out
- now find your ribbon
- thread the ribbon through the holes until you have reached the desired length
- now find somewhere lovely to hanging your bunting!!!
- Repeat!!!
then into a little dream adventure…
- to broaden a child’s learning you could write the alphabet out on each bunting flag, or 1-20 on each bunting flag…increasing their knowledge of literacy and numerals as well as a fun art activity
- you could write the days of the week on each flag or the months of the year, broadening there understanding of the world with which they live
- or make bunting of different colours, encouraging your child to name the different colours of the rainbow for instance
- draw a shape on each bunting flag, encouraging children to recognise shapes, developing their mathematical learning
- for autumn get the children to paint freestyle using autumnal colours, then cut out leaf shapes to create bunting
- draw round their hands and cut their hands out and create a fun bunting of all the different hands in your family, recognising that some are big and some are small…asking questions like, ‘which one is bigger than…?’ ‘which one is smaller than…?’ encouraging children to learn about size
