Art in the Park - Easy Snake crafts for kids of all ages!

Each month we get together with Miss Maribeth from Scribble n Splatter for our momstown  Art and Play Program. For the summer months we decided to move it outdoors and do Art in the Park. When doing crafts outdoors, you really need to keep it simple. Keeping the supplies to a minimum is key for easy transporting and less of a chance of forgetting anything. You also need to take the elements into consideration - especially the wind! We planned on making snakes to go with our desert theme.

Infant: Footprint Snake

What you need:

Paint - green, brown, or yellow
Paint brushes
googly eyes
red construction paper

What to do:

1. Apply paint to infants foot and stamp on paper multiple times toe to heel
2. glue googly eye to the head
3. cut out a long thin rectangle and cut a triangle slit in it to make a tongue

Toddler / Preschooler Slinky Snake

 

 

What you need:

 

egg carton cut into individual sections

paint

string

scissors

red construction paper

googly eyes

 

What to do:

 

1.paint the egg carton sections with paint - the more colours the better

2. let it dry - great time to let the kids go play on the park

3. thread the cartons through a piece of string - tie knot at the start and end so that they don't fall off

4. add googly eyes and cut out a tongue with the red construction paper

 

 

 

The kids enjoyed running around the park dragging their snakes along slithering through the grass. It was a fun event that even helped some mamas get over their fear of snakes! Join us next month when we discover birds for our Art and Play session!

 

 

 

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momstown Milton's Art & Play Program - Balls of Fun

 Our momstown Milton tots had Balls of Fun at our Art and Play Program. This month the theme of our educational curriculum was "At the Circus" so we decided to juggle, roll and bounce our balls through gobs of paint to see what would happen.

We started off with a variety of balls that were different in colour, size and texture - sensory overload! The kids were hesitant at first because they were unsure about getting the balls dirty. With a little bit of prompting, they soon began to get right into it and discovered the different types of prints that a golf ball made in contrast to a fuzzy tennis ball or a big smooth plastic ball.

Other learning concepts came into play such as sharing as the little ones rolled the ball back and forth across the table to each other.

When all was done, the mamas were very thankful to have the Huggies Simply Clean wipes in reach to clean up their little messy artists.

Join us next month when we make fishing rods and go put them to the test in the creek for our On the Pond theme.

There's a Rumble in the Jungle

momstown Milton moms, tots and babies recently explored the sights and sounds of the jungle. Well, ok the sights and sounds of Lowville Park.

We added the jungle part.

Our adventure began with circle time songs

and a read-aloud.

Puppets enhanced our fingerplay

And the coloring... well, that's just plain fun!!

Soon it was time to get crafty. We filled paper towel rolls with seeds and then painted them with interesting designs to create rainsticks.

In the end, we meandered through the creek and scampered across the brush while impersonating the animals in the jungle.

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Tots + paint = a wonderful combination

momstown Milton along with momstown Burlington find Lowville Park to be the perfect location for creating, painting, hugging friends, and frolicking in the creek.

It begins with just a little paint, some paper and a variety of kitchen sponges.

Before we know it the babes, and tots create magnificent masterpieces that only a mother could love!!

Then it is off to the creek...

Join us in August for another Picasso's in the Park

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Art in the Park!!!

Paint, paint and more paint!

Our momstown seasonal favourite "Picasso's in the Park" opened today and on such a beautifully sunny day!!

Both momstown Milton and momstown Burlington gathered at Lowville park to explore the sensory elements of paint. I think the mamas explored too (I know I came home covered in paint also!).

The weather was so great for a picnic and play in the playground too.

Join us next month for our June Picasso's event (and the creek will be warm enough then to wash the paint right off us!).