"Children the world over have a right to a childhood filled with beauty, joy, adventure, and companionship. They will grow toward ecological literacy if the soil they are nurtured in is rich with experience, love, and good examples."
Alan Dyer, “A Sense of Adventure”
Gardening and painting with my two little peoples...
Is this going to a magical sensory experience full of exploration, discoveries and fun OR is this going to be a complete DISASTER. Where someone ends up in tears (often me)!!!??? Well, I'm going to give it a shot anyways.
I ventured out and bought a couple of cheap terracotta pots, one small and one large, to fit the plants we already had (they'd been given to the kids from their Grandparents). The kids already had a bond with the plants as they had spent time over the past couple of weeks watering them.
I set the little one up with her little pot, in the high chair with four acrylic paints to choose from. As she is only 18 months she had to be supported (she often likes to eat the paint and do some face painting). She had the larger pot and chunky brushes (best for little hands to manipulate). She used the paint brushes for sometime and then used her fingers.
As for the little guy he painting away happily using his favourite colours.
I let the pots dry for a day and then Mr J and I added some wooden shapes with the hot glue gun for a bit of texture. I coated them in a hard core lacquer so the paint won't wash away. I gave it another day for the lacquer to dry and it was planting time!
We did end up in the bath on both the painting and planting experiences.
Was it worth the effort and resulting mess? |
| Mr J's Venus fly trap plant |
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| Miss M's plant
Of course it was!
How lovely it is to look outside and see their plants growing in their hand painted pots.
I think more will be popping up around our house in the near future.
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