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- Quick & Easy Mosaic Coloring Page Activity to Make for Your Kids
- Science Activities for Toddlers to Try
- Easy Stamping Spring Flower Art Project for Kids
| Quick & Easy Mosaic Coloring Page Activity to Make for Your Kids Posted: 03 May 2022 06:00 AM PDT Click here to read Quick & Easy Mosaic Coloring Page Activity to Make for Your Kids on Hands On As We Grow® Clearly it was time for mom to intervene with a quick activity. Enter the simple flower mosaic coloring page activity!  The beauty of this type of art activity is that it is great for any age and also requires very little prep and no fancy schmancy materials. Besides being low prep, it can also be modified and adapted to any shape, holiday, or season. Want to color a mosaic shamrock? Go for it. Mosaic star? Definitely! Mosaic groundhog? Sure, I mean, if you’re into that sort of thing.
 This activity would also work as a quick win on the back of a restaurant placemat if the activities on the front have been completed in record speed and your kid is on the verge of climbing up the fake schefflera next to your table.  Make A Simple Mosaic Flower Coloring PageTo Make Your Own Mosaic Flowers, You Will Need:
How To DIY A Mosaic Coloring Page for KidsFirst, draw a simple flower shape on the white paper. I experimented with several shapes before landing on this basic puffy flower shape.  Unless you are an art genius, I recommend doing your flower drawing in pencil first so that you can erase mistakes. Don’t worry if you have no artistic bone in your body and your flower. Your kids won’t care. Or maybe they will tease you mercilessly and compare your flower to last night’s mashed potatoes, I don’t know. It will provide a great teachable moment about how flowers are all different and imperfect and beautiful and LEAVE ME ALONE ALREADY.
After this, it’s time to create the mosaic lines on your coloring page. This step requires a very specific approach called do whatever you want. No, really. Anything goes.  Draw lines from one side to the other, connect them willy nilly at any point you want. Make circles, squiggly lines, stripes, make the shape of a placenta. There are no rules. (Though perhaps someone should make a rule about no placentas in kids crafts.) Older kids can create their mosaic designs on their own; younger ones can do it with help from you or you can do it for them. Like I said: no rules.  For older kids, you can make more “mosaic” pieces. For younger kids whose coloring stamina may fizzle out more quickly, only draw a few lines. Color Your DIY Mosaic Coloring PageAfter this, it’s time to color! Break out crayons, watercolors, paint ground from berries foraged in the woods, whatever your kids want to use. 
I’ve found that quiet coloring activities like this are perfect for setting out when I want to read aloud to my kiddos. They pay attention just as well, if not better, than they do when just sitting doing nothing with their hands. So go ahead and grab a great read-aloud the next time your kids are quietly engrossed in an activity! Double mom win.  I did this quick and simple mosaic coloring page with my two-year old and my six-year old. My seven-month old baby didn’t want to participate. She probably didn’t like the discrimination against placentas. 
Other Ideas for Your Mosaic Coloring Activity
 What simple coloring activities have your kids enjoyed lately? |
| Science Activities for Toddlers to Try Posted: 02 May 2022 06:00 AM PDT Click here to read Science Activities for Toddlers to Try on Hands On As We Grow® These are some awesome science activities for toddlers for a fun science theme, learning all about science. When I think of science activities, I often just think of science experiments for the kids to do. But science is so much more than that. Its weather, and nature, and biology and so much more. I actually had a hard time when I jotted down areas of science. Science can also be classifying and sorting and physics, which all to me, tends to blend in with mathematics. So I left certain areas of those out of this selection of science activities for toddlers.  What are science activities?Science activities can be exploring, observing and taking notes. Science is about experimenting, trial and error. Science activities are learning about nature, weather and the world around us. Science is learning about the human body, animals, and how they all interact. That’s just science in my own words. Toddlers obviously can’t understand everything there is to know about science. Or even really grasp the basics. But they can be introduced to the concepts and this is often an area that is so magical for kids. These science activities are fascinating for toddlers! Now, here’s lots of science activities for toddlers!Activities for toddlers to experiment, observe, learn and just have fun with!  Nature activities for toddlers:
Explore physics with toddlers:
Weather activities for toddlers:
Human body activities for toddlers:
Science experiments for toddlers:
What science activities for toddlers have you tried? |
| Easy Stamping Spring Flower Art Project for Kids Posted: 01 May 2022 06:00 AM PDT Click here to read Easy Stamping Spring Flower Art Project for Kids on Hands On As We Grow® We love a good stamping craft and this spring flower art project is perfect! I’ve been meaning to do bottle stamping for ages. And I’m so glad we did it as a flower art project! It was so simple! Easy Stamping Spring Flower Art Craft for KidsWe were all in the mood to add a little spring color to our house. This simple spring craft was just the ticket!  Plus, it’s super simple. Even toddlers can handle stamping the bottom of a bottle into paint and onto paper. To stamp your own spring flowers, you’ll need:
Even though the actual stamping is really simple, it’s still three steps to get to the finished project. I’m actually amazed that Henry took to this activity because it was on one of those days. But he really, really enjoyed it. And we got some great artwork for the wall just in time for the flowers to start popping up outside! Anyone else as super excited as I am for that first bloom? Get Stamping for Pretty Spring Flower ArtI was going to say that the straw blown stems was his favorite part… but now I’m not sure! Every step was really fun!  To make the stems, I dropped a few drops of green food coloring into a small bowl of water. Henry used a dropper/syringe to squirt some in one spot on the paper.  Then he blew it, using the straw, as far across the paper as he could! Once the paper was filled with flower stems, it was time for the flowers to “bloom.” See what I did there?  I put some purple paint in a small dish just big enough for a soda bottle to fit into. Henry dipped the bottle into the paint and printed flowers on the top of his stems.  For the finishing touch: the flower center. With a quick dip of his thumb into some yellow paint, Henry added the centers to the flowers.
That’s it! His flower art project is complete.  What are your favorite spring flower art projects? We’d love to share your creativity with our community! |
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