Painting and drawing are activities we enjoy doing together a lot. All the while, our painting and drawing sessions have been all free doodling, playing with paint and water, exploring colours or simply put, just do anything we like. But since this month was all about cars and vehicles, I thought why not provide a little structure and scaffolding to our usual painting session that's related to our theme. I was also pretty inspired by an art studio I visited at a children museum here. Every visit, there were different materials for the children to work with. Other than the enriched sensory experience, the young children (under 4 years old) were kept engaged with the novelty of the materials. Nothing fanciful, these materials are just simple stuffs like cardboards, sponges, egg cartons which we can find at home easily. So this month, other than the usual paint brushes, drawing papers and common art supplies, I like let Xue explore more materials.
There are some preparation work required for this activity which is to paint the vehicles' bodies the night before. I wanted to let Xue stamp on the wheels with toilet rolls and the windows with sponges. I gave him the toilet rolls at the start of the activity and when his interest dwindled then I took out the other novelty material, sponges. The verdict? Xue loved the activity! He was quite excited about the circles created with the toilet rolls and later, he decided he wanted to draw on some wheels himself too.
The completed art work is up on the wall now!
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