Materials Needed:
Thumbtacks or nails
Fat Crayons
Yarn (Lots of different colors)
Easel Paper (or Large Glass Wrapping Paper from your local storage/moving company.)
I have a two year old that likes to get into everything that she can (I mean everything!!) as soon as I get to helping Elijah on his school work. So I needed to leave out some stuff that she could get her hands on for a while, but not make a mess. I sometimes didn’t have time to set out stuff or just didn’t remember. I found this great idea that has been working for me very well!!
I tape these big “wrapping” papers all over the house with different crayons and as she walks around the house she gets a hold of these and spends around 5 min on each. All I do at this point is switch out the paper.
When I want her to get creative I just leave it blank, when we are working on something like a tree for the letter T I draw a half done tree with the big letter T in block letter format so she can color it in. It’s done wonders for me!!
This works great for those of you who have kids that have a problem with keeping crayons off the wall. You can introduce this method of drawing and art making sure they remember to draw only on the paper. It gives them the freedom with guidelines. Now your toddler can draw anytime she wants without you having to constantly prepare and clean up after her.
Note: Make sure the string is around the middle length of the paper (2 feet). Mandis accidently went over the paper since the string length was a lot longer. Too short won’t give them the freedom to express their artful selves.
What they will learn with this activity:
Creativity
