Another great week of outdoor play! I hope you enjoy!
Monday 3rd September - We went to a local stately home with family, we didn't make it in to the house but enjoyed a sunny walk in the grounds which featured lots of interesting statues including this concrete elephant.
Tuesday - We took some activities we often do inside out. First we iced some biscuits.
Then we made some paper plate masks. I took some paper plates and snipped out eye holes then got the boys to colour them we ended up with Iron man and Batman!
Wednesday - Lots of imaginary play in the garden all sorts of pirate and superhero adventures and some lovely playing between Bud and Little Dude.
Thursday - I saw this idea for spaghetti painting posted recently at Blogmemom and knew we had to try it out, what I didn't anticipate was how messy it would get!
Basically you make brushes by taking bundles of spaghetti, I tied mine together with rubber bands. You then boil the spaghetti so that the 'brush' is cooked spaghetti, but the 'handle' remains uncooked.
I taped some paper down to the table and let the boys get painting.
Here's the brushes in action.
And then it started to get a bit messy! I used really cheap spaghetti and it started to break off the 'brush' and of course the boys couldn't help but stick their hands in it (and yep I did have to reign in a bit of spaghetti throwing and eating!!).
But, the end results were really pretty and the boys really enjoyed this although a bath was definitely required!
Friday - Some nice simple stone cooking in the garden.
Then later a visit to the park followed by pizza and chocolate cake alfresco!
Saturday - We went to a local forest which had a great family trail. The trail is filled with loads of Community Art projects including several giant wooden sculptures, a fairy garden and these great drums!
Sunday - A bit of wrestling with Hubby in the garden!
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Oooh looks like you have had a lovely outdoor week!! LOVE the spaghetti painting. SUCH fun. I had to take it off Kids Get Arty, hope that that is ok - as kids Get Arty is specifically about linking up Art Projects that relate to a Great Artist. I do hope that that is ok, and please DO come and link it next week - when "anything goes" again!!!
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ANd thank you for sharing on Kids Get Crafty this week!! :-)
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Another fab week! Loving your ideas, especially the painting! X
ReplyDeleteLove the spaghetti brushes, we'll definitely be trying this.
ReplyDeleteI love this idea! My girls will have a blast! Thanks for sharing!
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Hannah, love this post & your way of spaghetti painting is very different to any I've seen or tried! Thanks again for adding it to the link up. Kierna
ReplyDeleteThose spaghetti brushes are awesome! I love messy projects!
ReplyDeleteLove it! We recently painted with yarn and made a mess (and memories)! I'm your newest follower hope you will follow me back!
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Julie @ Hey Mommy, Chocolate Milk
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Visiting from RedTedArt and am loving the spaghetti painting.
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DeleteHey thanks for linking back to me! We loved our spaghetti brooms.Looks like you had fun too. Did it get too messy for you guys?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the idea in the first place! And yes it did get a bit too messy, what was more crazy was trying to stop my son eating the spaghetti despite the fact it was cold and had paint on it!
DeleteOh, how fun!! I love the spaghetti painting. It looks like quite a lot of fun! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!
ReplyDeleteI always love your mess ratings. Looks like you all had loads of messy fun! Thanks for sharing at the Sunday Showcase. :)
ReplyDeleteCan you make these brushes a few hours before you want to use them? I'd like to use them in my classroom.
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