Easy Peasy Stained Glass Windows

We love the colours on these...

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Trapped air bubbles, and a rainbow of colour.

It's just a large sandwich bag ( plastic bag) with 3 blobs of paint: primary colours.

Squish and squash together and attach to window with Blu-tak.

They can play with it all day on the window as it takes a day or so to dry...

Blending and merging. Looks so beautiful!

Lovely autumnal colours.

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Spring Nature Prints

Big Seed went to the park and collected a bucket of Spring treasures.

He is really into mixing colours..especially orange.

Orange, orange, orange.

Here are a few things he collected ...

And then he printed with them, exploring shape, texture and colour.

And then... of course

to finish off...

hands!

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Mixing Colours With A Sandwich Bag

Lots of people have been doing this on blogs lately so

we had a go too....mixing colours without getting messy!

Most mums use ziploc bags with loads of paint,

but this proves you can sellotape a sandwich bag with 2 small blobs of paint.

Little Seed going fast!

Making a noise...then rapidly finished with it.

Big Seed going really sloooow....

wondering why his fingers were not getting covered in paint

That was so cute!

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Enormous Splatter Picture

Inspired by The Artful Parent and Jackson Pollock we made huge splatter pictures.

Big Seed really enjoyed this.

Above is the flat canvas I attached to the end of the paper so I could keep this.

This is really cheap from The Range or Wilkinsons in UK.

I love this picture...combines the garden and painting.

I taped lots of big sheets from my husband's office together.

You can use a roll (from Ikea) or a sheet.

I put 3 poster paint colours in pots, watered down a little,

and gave him a brush, a spoon and a stick.

He liked pouring it the best ...he thought that was really great,

I suppose because that's something we don't ever do.

I can also see the shapes he had made out of wool yarn on the grass.

The garden is so great for big stuff!

But you know what he liked the best?

Now his feet were covered in paint so I brought a bowl of water and a cloth

to wipe him...

he loved dunking the cloth and splattering that about the best!

Oh well....typical eh?

Watercolours # 2 : Mixing Colours With Pipettes

I love watching Big Seed use watercolours...and this was so fun I just had to have a go...

We wet the paper both sides with water and a sponge.

We concentrated on blue and yellow making green.

I put these 2 colours in the palette and used 2 separate pipettes.

Once the paper is ready just let the drops explode...

I love the way the edges fray.

I did this first to demonstrate how to drop the paint and commentated on how the drops blurred into each other.

We talked about how green is formed, and how the colours overlapped.

I then left this to dry and it all blurred together so there were no white areas of paper showing.

I used it for my Father's Day card.

Big Seed found the pipette a bit tricky at first.

He sucked up a lot of paint and made lots of dramatic splats.

He said they were "his pancakes!"

I love the bottom right hand side. Its gorgeous.

And just like with a brush, like it says in the book we are using,

young children feel the need to cover the entire paper and use up all the paint.

I had to fill the palette up again he was enjoying so much!

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If you cut out a huge circle, wouldn't this make a great planet?

Or a sea background?

It's really pretty on our wall just as it is...

Starting with Watercolours

Painting with watercolours seems to be a core part of Steiner creativity

so I thought we would give it a go.

Big Seed did a lovely picture a long time ago at Steiner Playgroup,

it was the first painting to go on the wall.

I was 11 years old the last time I had a go...it wasn't great, I didn't have a clue!

I am using this as a starting point.

I bought a pad of watercolour paper.

It is quite expensive and this is probably why mainstream schools don't do watercolours,

however the colours and paintings are so beautiful it's worth it.

If anyone knows where to get cheaper paper in the UK please let me know.

The book says to wet the paper with a sponge.

I used my marble bread board to put it on.

Wet both sides so the edges don't curl up as in the picture!

The book says to use tubes of watercolour to mix with water in a palette.

Just opening the box is exciting!

Keep it simple to start.

For children under 3's use just one colour.

Big Seed used the 3 primary colours today.

This palette is great and doubles as a sorting and counting tray!

With the classical music on, Big Seed got going.

He LOVED this, it is so therapeutic.

Is it because the edges blur and dance around?

I just sat and watched him.

"OK, I'm done," he said, "Can I do another one?"

Yes, but the baby needed a feed!!

He couldn't wait so...

He emptied the palette completely and just painted on top,

so it changed into a different picture.

I narrated for him as the book suggests, ie blue wants his friend red to come along to his party, etc

He liked this and this encouraged him to keep going.

So where had red gone?

"Oh, he is under the blue there."

And he's only just begun.