Another day another Easter activity

Today we baked biscuits before breakfast and after we did some painting

With plastic eggs

Esther and William love painting

Esther is generally the more artistic of the two

But something about today’s activity

Really appealed to William

And he produced some of his best artwork yet

Esther made a pink and purple mess

And I was equally proud of both of them

This is what we did

I put different coloured poster paints into different coloured containers

We then matched them as closely as we could with coloured plastic eggs

We used the eggs as our painting tools

William listened carefully to me explain

That to begin with we would not mix the colours

And keep each egg in the right colour and container

Esther just claimed pink and purple for her own

And set to work on her masterpiece of mess!

Esther was in her element

Lost in her own little world of creation

William was perhaps the most engaged he has ever been

In an art activity

It was wonderful to see

He carefully dipped the eggs in the paint

And then printed with them on to his page

Creating a circular explosion of colour

To begin with he was loudly printing with the eggs

And then he discovered the sensory joy

That is scraping and smearing

Spreading the paint across the page

William’s works of wonder

Inspired me to create a picture I really love

To me it looks like a chorus of angels

I was really pleased with all of our art work today

The printing

The patterns

The colours

The circles

The pictures

And yes, lovely little Esther

Even the beautiful mess!

But the highlight of our Easter activity today

Is that my non arty, non interested in art boy

Produced this

And I love it!

This was such a simple activity

Fabulous fun and brilliant results

A lovely way to start an Easter day

Painting with plastic eggs