terrydoo73
26-01-2010, 10:53 PM
I bought a cheap cork board tonight in Tesco's for just over £1. I thought I could use it to display themes for the month and try and encourage my children to think and maybe even participate in craft activities.
Having said that today I had a little mitten for each of them to use paint dabbers on and then stick on some snowflakes - did one to show them how to do it and my 4 year old looked at it for a moment then said "can I cut it up"!! I was a bit taken aback and just said "now if you had just done a lovely picture for your mum would you really like me to cut it up?" She just laughed at me and I could see she still wanted to cut the picture up. I told her there were mittens in the basket and why didn't she colour one in for her mum. She didn't take me up on the offer!
Anyway I thought I could try and get them to do some of their own work to stick on the board and they would then be able to tell mum that was theirs! I was thinking of doing one display for January but haven't got a clue where to start! Does anyone have any ideas - do you put some sort of background on first then add pictures or what?
Having said that today I had a little mitten for each of them to use paint dabbers on and then stick on some snowflakes - did one to show them how to do it and my 4 year old looked at it for a moment then said "can I cut it up"!! I was a bit taken aback and just said "now if you had just done a lovely picture for your mum would you really like me to cut it up?" She just laughed at me and I could see she still wanted to cut the picture up. I told her there were mittens in the basket and why didn't she colour one in for her mum. She didn't take me up on the offer!
Anyway I thought I could try and get them to do some of their own work to stick on the board and they would then be able to tell mum that was theirs! I was thinking of doing one display for January but haven't got a clue where to start! Does anyone have any ideas - do you put some sort of background on first then add pictures or what?