MESS FREE? ✔
EASILY TRANSPORTED? ✔ FUN AND ENGAGING? ✔ MORE THAN ONE THERAPY GOAL? ✔ This activity ticks all the right boxes for a mobile occupational therapist! Have you heard of Q-tip painting? (Q-tips are also called "cotton tips" in Australia and are usually found in the personal care section of a supermarket). Q-tip painting has been quite popular in the last few years with Q-tips used as paint brushes dipping into paint and making "spots" onto various printables available. Last year, I put together my Q-tips and my ink pads... creating Q-tip stamping! It was a hit with my kids; providing the same fun engaging activity without the MESS! This is why I love Q-tip stamping!
This is an activity that would well in a classroom, at home or in an OT session! You could shrink down the pages and turn them into a card or display the finished pictures!
Have you tried Q-tip STAMPING before? Do you have other mess-free activities that you use in therapy sessions? If you try this activity for yourself, I would love to see it! Tag #yourkidsot on Instagram or email me at [email protected] Don't forget to download yourFREE EASTER Q-TIP PRINTABLE HERE!
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This craft is inspired by the district exhibits found at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. Instead of fruit and vegetables, we gathered some seed pods from the garden, lentils, rice and pasta.
What do you do?
Drying time is quite a while (several hours, depending on how much glue is used).
This is a "free form" craft and suits kids of all ages. As you can see from the photographs, Miss 7 drew a picture and was quite precise with her layout and placement of textural elements. Mr 3 was less precise, however still enjoyed placing the various textures onto the canvas {and yes he received help to spell out his name}.
Depending on your child's attention span, this is a craft that your child might start and then come back to at a later time or even on a different day. You could introduce a new element for them to paste when they return. The finished work might not be as stunning as a fruit and vegetable display from the Sydney Royal Easter Show, however, it provides a textural board for hands to explore. The textures are really interesting when the glue has dried. It also makes a unique artwork for your child's bedroom wall or as a gift. Ours are displayed above our fireplace (still not completed, mind you). This is the perfect craft to do over the school holidays, maybe after a visit to the show. Do you enjoy visiting the Sydney Royal Easter Show? What do you like best? If you live somewhere other than Sydney - do you have something similar to our district exhibits?
Ever had a pinterest inspired attempt at a craft and fail? Guess which is mine?
It looked so beautiful, it sounded so easy ... anyway moving right along, I'm an OT - flexible, creative, adaptable ... the post is now called "Homemade sensory experience with colour!" See it sounds better already.
Here is what we did.
3. Use a toothpick to marble the food colouring into the shaving foam.
4. Roll the egg into the shaving foam mixture.
5. Place the shaving foam covered egg onto a tray with paper towel to dry for 30 minutes. Remove shaving foam with paper towel for final dyed eggs.
So our colour didn't really stick to the egg. There are probably a few good reasons - our eggs were still warm from being recently boiled and I think the original eggs were white and maybe blown out so they were lighter than the shaving foam...
Well we certainly made a good coloured sensory mess and the kids loved it! They loved spraying the shaving cream, dropping the colour, mixing it with a toothpick and getting their hands into the mess. So as a homemade sensory experience with colour, it worked really well! Have you had a Pinterest inspired fail? Have you got a tried and tested way of dyeing your eggs? Do your kids enjoy messy play?
Note: Shaving foam should not be consumed. Children should be supervised during this activity and it is not recommended for children less than 3 years of age. I would not recommend consuming the egg after this activity.
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