With the seasons changing the beautiful autumn colours are everywhere and my son and I have loved going on walks and collecting lots of autumn treasures!
He loves crunching and kicking through the leaves and collecting conkers, acorns, sticks, leaves and anything else’s he can find!
So with all of these wonderful autumn treasures filling up our house I thought we should use them in one of our MAMA afternoons and create some fabulous art!
Equipment;
– Plastic activity mat.
– Old clothes or aprons.
– Card/cardboard/paper/toilet rolls.
– Paint pots.
– Different coloured paints (autumnal colours, water based & non toxic).
– Autumn treasures – leaves, sticks, conkers, acorns, pine cones etc.
– Paint brushes/sponges.
– Wipes.
Step 1: Preparation;
Whilst out and about start collecting up autumnal treasures and when you have enough it’s time to have some messy fun!
I set up the activity space inside. I put the activity mat on the table together with the other equipment, and then we got into our painting clothes.
Step 2: Autumn messy mash up time!
My son squeezed all the paints out into the pots and then started experimenting with all of the autumn treasures. I had no firm plans for this activity just wanted to see what he wanted to do and things just kind of evolved from there.
He used the autumn treasures to make marks on the card, and also enjoyed dunking them in the paint till they were fully covered.
We sponge painted the leaves to make shape outlines and also completely covered them in paint to hide them!
We were running out of some of the colours and my son enjoyed squeezing these bottles to make the paint spray over his pictures! This was quite messy but he enjoyed it so much and it looked great so was well worth it.
We of course also got hands involved to make handprints too – it’s like my sons signature now!
We were thoroughly entertained for a good hour and we had some lovely pictures by the end of it all!
Step 3: Tidy tidy tidy up!
We were both pretty messy by the end as was our activity space. We put our paintings to the side to dry, our reusable bits to soak and put other things in the bin. We wiped down the excess paint and then we both required a good bath! I then did a better clean up later on.
We both really enjoyed this experimental afternoon and would highly recommend just going with the flow sometimes and seeing how things turn out!
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