art explorers | Sevenoaks

We often incorporate playdough into our themed classes, the children just love it. It really is an amazing way for children to be creative, it can become whatever they wish. We love to add in exciting playdough props to make the experience even more fun. This term some of our favourite have been icy animal and space/moon playdough. To the icy animals we added sugar cubes for icebergs or igloo ice blocks, foil for ice and plenty of glittery pipe cleaners for icicles. For our s

It was all about love and hearts at art explorers this week. Coffee filters were transformed into funky hearts with lots of ink and water dropped on with pipettes. Watching the colours merge and create new colours always mesmerises me as much as the little ones! To do this at home you need the big round unbleached coffee filters. There was also pom pom painting and some amazing play dough valentines creations. Happy Valentines Day! #Valentines #hearts #coffeefilters #playdoug

Brrrrr! Its been so cold outside this week, we even had enough snow to make snowmen so it seemed like a good time to focus on winter weather. The art explorers really concentrated on sticking down tape to make paint resist snowflakes. They then used fantastic fine motor skills to tear tissue paper and foil to make a snow man collage. Glittery icicles where a hit and snowy themed playdough with blocks of ice (sugar cubes) were great fun. I've had some requests for the playdoug

Grrrrrrr! The dinosaurs came for a stomp at todays class! If you fancy trying this at home simply gather together some plastic dinosaurs, squeeze some poster paints onto a tray or plate and let those dinosaurs stomp in the paint and onto paper. Make sure you use washable paints so the dinosaurs can be washed easily afterwards. The Art Explorers loved making dinosaur fossils with play dough too. You can do this at home by supplying a variety of shapes of pasta with playdough t