We're on Holiday! This is a guest post for Learn with Play at home written by the lovely Nae from Adventures At Home with Mum. Enjoy, Debs :)
Paint what you see
Painting is a creatively fun yet educational activity for children and an easy activity for parents to engage in. It can be messy at times but this is half of the experience so don’t let that put you off. (Here are some more of my Messy Painting Tips) Apart from being a sensory discovery, creative and fun, painting is very beneficial to a child’s development.
Free painting is great for little hands and we do free paint a lot but this time around we had a different painting Adventure with the aim of painting objects. “Paint what you see” was the only direction. With this direction the benefits of painting become more apparent and the object the child is painting becomes more visually represented.
This is a great way to help children step up from colour mixed blob paintings to real life object paintings. But remember that the process is more important, not the product; It is what they learn not what it looks like.
