Nursery World - Make an impression

What's the best paper to use for printing? How much paint do you use? How do you hold a small object? Hilary White shows you how not toput your foot in it. Printing is one of my all time favourite activities, especially where children are concerned. I will never forget one particular hand-printing session and a little girl who had virtually reached her shoulder with the paint brush before anyone noticed.

Printing is one of my all time favourite activities, especially where children are concerned. I will never forget one particular hand-printing session and a little girl who had virtually reached her shoulder with the paint brush before anyone noticed.

I learnt a lot from that child. First of all, make sure that you are near a source of soap and water whenever you do hand prints; set up your printing activity in a place where the odd stray splodge of paint does not matter too much (the garden is good); and, most important, be flexible over what the children use to create a print. We couldn't possibly waste all that paint and the resulting arm prints added great originality to that five-year-old's work!

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