Water Painting

Little Owl loves to paint.

But its messy.

She doesn't care what she paints.

But she loves to dip the brush in the paint.

And then use up the paint on the brush.

And start all over again.

She mixes the colours.

And gets paint everywhere!

This is why I have only let her paint at home a couple of times.

Mainly I wait until she is at a group

Such as the adventure playground

Where someone else can help clear up.

Then a friend of mine shared this ingenious idea!

Water painting!

Outdoors in the sunshine!

Its brilliant.

Little Owl loves it.

She can paint as much as she likes.

We don't run out of water.

And the sunshine dries it off so she can't paint things again and again!

Little Owl loved doing hand prints

And foot prints too!

It doesn't even matter if she paints her face!

Water painting is our new favourite thing to do!

Natural Sensory Play

Little Owl just loves to explore the outdoors and we are very lucky to have a park nearby with several sets of swings, large grass areas, a café, plenty of ponds and some great wooded areas too!

The leaves on the floor at this time of year are just great fun and we don't get to walk very far as Little Owl wants to stop and look at everything! 

 There were sticks...

 And plenty of leaves!

We took a small bag with us so Little Owl could take some of these things home.

Two days after our visit to the park, I gave Little Owl her bag of bits and let her explore.

 At first she took one leaf out at a time, looked at it then put it back in. 

The holly leaf caused a lot of interest!

 After a bit, Little Owl realised that she was only seeing the same leaves over and over,

and it was time to empty the bag properly!

 She had a great time exploring the different textures.

 Watching the leaves fall back to the table.

  

In the park, Little Owl is always distracted by the next thing she has spotted and so it was great to see her taking her time over all the items.

After Little Owl had finished, most of her collection went in the bin

but I kept a few interesting bits to come out again.