Nursery World - Play time! (4)

Simple and adaptable activities to foster babies' and toddlers' cognitive development and emotional wellbeing are offered by Alice Sharp In a swirl

In a swirl

Dab and drip, splash and swirl,

Push it, squish it, paint a swirl,

Mix it, stir it, flick it out,

That's what painting's all about!

* Provide your young children with a variety of coloured liquids and pastes that they can use to make marks. For example, offer them undiluted juices, water with food colouring and thick pastes made from powders such as hot chocolate, milkshake and coffee.

* Let the children explore and experiment with the variety of liquid and pastes on offer and repeat the rhyme as they play, suggesting they push the paint, squish it once it is on the paper and flick it using some string.

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