Spring Blossom Art

As it is finally looking like spring here in Plymouth, we have been out and about in the local parks looking at the flowers in the trees. This has given us inspiration to create some of our own spring blossom pictures. 

For our 2 year old this involved lots of lovely glue and scrunching up tissue paper. I drew the branches for him and showed him how to scrunch up the flowers. He then chose the colours of the paper, scrunched them up and decided where to stick them. The concentration involved in sticking the tissue paper on the glue spots was easy to spot and definitely helped his fine motor skills. 

For our 10 month old tissue paper is something to be thrown on the floor so we tried a different method. After drawing him some branches I placed some spots of blossom coloured paint on the paper. He eyed it up with curiosity and then began to feel the paint. Deciding that this was ok he then excitedly spread the paint around, banging his hands into the paint with delight!