We picked up this idea from the blog “Filth Wizardry” and also saw the children at Jenny’s pre school having fun with it . We thought, as the spring sunshine is now streaming in through our lovely big windows each morning, that we’d give stained glass windows a go too!

We drew some “frames” on the windows with liquid chalk.

We gave the children wall paper paste for glueing and a selection of tissue papers with instructions to …

tear the paper, not cut  it …

and we asked them to paste the paper …

within the boundaries  ..

of the different shaped frames.

These were two restrictions which the children coped with magnificently (most of the time!).

They looked beautiful

and everyone was really pleased with the result.

As you can see, we probably left the paper and paste out just one session too long …

Oh well, that’s play based learning for you!

We had some paper plates left over from an eatfest, so popped them out on the table with containers of coloured tissue paper and glue.

We like to leave it up to the children to decide what they would like to do with the materials which we present and just see where they go with it – we find they often have much better ideas than we would have. Children are good at thinking outside the square.

They enjoyed dipping the tissue paper into the glue instead of the using the usual brush.

We were blown away with the variety of shapes and patterns the children came up with.  Some children enjoyed doing quite intricate work …

… while others went for the whole hand scrunch.

Sticky, slimy fingers – yummy!

Whatever way they went, they had fun!