Crayon Resist Painting : The Magic Revealed

Color Carnival : Day 5 

I have an enthralling news to share with you all😊. This is my 50th post at Sindhuscocoon🎈🎉. I'm so excited. Thank you all for your support, comments, encouragement and ideas. You guys are the driving force that keeps this blog going. And loads of kisses to my LO, without his cooperation I couldn't have come this long😘😘😘. 

Today is the final day of the Color Carnival, so I wanted to combine colors and celebration together. We guys would have done the following technique during our childhood days, the crayon resist painting. I also remember doing crayon etching - scratch art. I wanna get back to those days, so planned crayon resist painting for today's post!😁

Supplies :

• Chart paper or any thick sheet, preferably
• White wax crayon
• Water color or any kids paint
• Paint brush, of course!

Draw or write any thing of your wish on the white sheet with white wax crayons. White color crayons makes it more magical.

Once done with white crayons, color the entire sheet with water color, to unveil the magic. LO did part of the painting, rest was done by me!

 He got so excited on seeing the letters and drawings appear bright as he painted. I traced out his palm and filled with white crayons. He was so happy and proud!!😜

 'C is for' Celebrate - I know he would be happy to read a word in this manner!

And finally, the 50th post is here!!! Hurrah... Try out this magical resist art with your kids and make them surprised. Please share your comments in the comment box.

Happy Parenting!😊

Finger Painting - A Brilliant Activity for Toddlers

Color Carnival  : Day 4

Is there a kid who doesn't like finger painting? Finger painting is easier for little fingers that are not yet ready to manipulate a brush. Finger painting could be started as early before a kid turns one. To start with you can try with edible home made paints or non-toxic paints. Messy and free play enhances kid's self-expression, imagination and creativity. 

Now, let's us look into what LO did in this session of Finger painting. Last time we did color mixing and palm print (I will share you the pics soon!) So this time I expected similar kinda play, but LO made a different attempt which I didn't expect!

Let me give you all a walk through at LO's imaginative painting!

I just offered him the colors one by one, and it was all LO's imagination and creation. We started with orange color, and LO painted a sun!

Then I gave him yellow color, and it was funny he chose banana to draw. Followed by red colored candles.. 

Then green colored grass..

Purple color wheels, and yellow color car!

A purple motor bike with brown color wheels.

 And Blue sky!!

 Orange birds, one bigggg and one small bird!!

That's a red colored fire truck, but we didn't have enough space to paint the wheels, so he made it upside down!

and an upside down tree!

Let's revisit the colorful pictures..😜

Happy Parenting!

Fun with Shapes, Textures and Colors

Color Carnival : Day 3

This is an All-in-one activity! Kids get to explore different shapes, textures and colors in this single activity. Initially, me and LO started this activity to explore different shapes with colors. But finally it turned out to be exploring the textures too. The materials we collected for different shapes were of different textures, and that is what made this activity interesting. LO got so excited on seeing the final colored texture of his star and rectangle painting! Lets look into the exciting textures and shapes.

Materials Used:

Kids washable paint

White construction papers

For the shapes:

Circle - Paper roll tube

Star - wooden block

Square - wooden block and bristle block

Triangle - bristle block and triangular tube

Hexagon - hexagon shaped bottle

Rectangle - wooden block and sponge

We started with circle, used the paper roll tube. For kids, to start with, the paper roll is a great way to encourage using colors, since it is a mess free painting. 

LO enjoyed making different colored circles and rubbing it!

Next we did the star print with a wooden block. LO got so excited with this, since the texture the star block made with the colors was amazing. Can you observe the striped star in the picture? The star block was already painted with oil paint kinda and when LO dipped into color to make the impression, it made superb stripes!

The next shape we tried was rectangle with a wooden block. When you observe it close, you can find checked pattern it has made! And we tried to print square shape with pink color.

I had a hexagon shaped small glass bottle and a small triangular tube which we used to print.

We used bristel blocks and printed square and triangle. Look at the pattern of the shapes!

Here comes one more interesting texture, the sponge. Surprisingly found this rectangular piece in his cupboard and gave a try. We mixed green and blue color to get a different pattern. My God! It turned out fabulous.

Give a try with different shapes and textures, with what ever items available at your home! I'm sure kids will enjoy this activity.

Happy Parenting!

Painting with Cotton Swabs

Color Carnival : Day 2

At our place the next two days seem to be rainy. I know rainy days make kids (and Moms!) go cranky😣. Keeping kids occupied indoors could be bit challenging! So, soon as LO completes his breakfast I start to plan for the day's activity, before he goes cranky! 

The next Coloring activity is with cotton swabs😊. Using the swabs is a great fine motor activity for kids. Gripping the Q- tips is similar to the writing practice and helps develop pencil grasp.

Materials Used:

• Cotton Swabs
• White Paper
• Kids Washable Paint
• Pencil
• Transparent Tape

Tape the white paper on the table. Initially I thought to print on patterns like waves, zig-zag.. etc. So I drew a wave pattern with pencil and let LO to print the colors with swab on it. Look the cloudy day have made my pictures look dull😠

 He did a quite decent job and completed the blue color wave. Next I drew grass like pattern, since he asked for green color. I have to admit truly, he lost interest half way through!

So I thought alphabets would be right choice to make him get back to interest. So I wrote his name with pencil, and proffered him many colors.

Without big mess we completed printing his name!

Try this out, and I'm sure kids would love this different way of working with cotton swabs. Expand your imagination and try out varied ideas, and allow free play for your little ones.

Happy Parenting!😊

Fork Painting

Color Carnival : Day 1

Fork Painting! I was thinking to do this color activity with LO for months, and the right time clicked in. As this is LO's first time experiment with fork I didn't think of any theme, so I just left LO to do his own free art. 

All you need is a fork, white paper and washable kids paint. Have the kids dip the fork into the paint and press down so it shows the three lines. We started with red color, initially.

I didn't want LO to make mess with colors, so I gave him only one color at a time!

Next we did the same with green color.

Fork painting allows for different textures and patterns and creates far different than a paint brush. Try using varied colors, create different patterns and play around. Worth giving it a try! 

Happy Parenting!

Color Carnival Begins!

Color Carnival 

This week is gonna be a Color Carnival at Sindhu's cocoon! Yes, for the next five days you will find posts related to colors, colors and colors! Hurrah, me and LO are so excited about this week's theme😁. Watch this space!

Happy Parenting!

Night Sky Collage

Teaching Shapes for Toddlers with Paper Collage Activity 

Part 7 : Star 

After a long break we are back with a shape collage🌟. This collage is very simple to do, except for the preparatory work! I was bit indolent about this idea, because of the shape! Cutting out the star shape without a punch is bit tedious! But motivation to do this came in the from of a book from library. Yeah, it was a board book with a "star"(stencil) in each page! 😀 And hurrah! I started to trace out the stars. We planned to make a simple night sky collage, and added a crescent shaped moon to our sky🌟🌜

And this the book I mentioned earlier. 

If you want to try this, you can download the below picture in pdf format here.

LO's collage work!

And here you go! Night sky with the moon and stars is dazzling!✨

You can even try this collage with different colored stars on white or blue sky. 

After collage activity:

• Encourage your child to sing the rhyme "Twinkle Twinkle little star"🌟
• Count the number of stars used in the collage. Make an attempt to count the stars on real sky during the night!
• Talk about the shape of crescent moon and star🌙★.
• Talk about the color of day sky and night sky, the sun and the moon🌞🌕.

Happy Parenting!😊