This can be indoors and outdoors (good and bad weather) and could take a few days. A nice lesson, and they get to walk around the woods/yard.

Art Media Activities

-painting with different types of tools eg finger painting, different sized brushes, cotton-wool buds, balloons, natural materials eg sticks leaves, wool, string, marbles

-prints with shells, leaves etc

-crayon and dye pictures

-chalk on black paper

-magazine pictures

-collage

-weaving

Box construction – making animals, vechiles etc out of boxes

reading books, putting on puppet shows, or acting out stories

singing

dancing to music, using props eg scarves

making an obstacle course outside

Water play -with bubbles or coloured water, exploring properites of water throught measuring and filling containers, washing toy dishes or dolls

-playdough

-clay

-gardening, growing seeds

-cooking/baking or making no-cooking snacks ie jelly, fruit juice or ice blocks