A year ago I joined in linking up to my first ever Blog Hop for the World Animal Day 2011 and it gives me great pleasure to be one of the cohosts this year.
As a child animals played a major part of my life – we had pets large and small and as I grew up they lead me to work with them so having fun and learning about animals is one of the things that we do often at home. Now J is at preschool T and I have some time to do some activities just the two of us. We have been reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar and she is fascinated by the colourful butterfly at the end. So as part of our celebrations for World Animal Day 2012 we decided to make some colourful butterflies together.
What you need to make colourful butterflies
Brightly coloured finger paints
White Paper
How you make colourful butterflies
This is such a simple but effective activity to do with very young toddlers. T and I sat down together and I folded some paper in half giving her the folded paper and then she went and decorated the folded paper with her hands.
She was really pleased with herself when she realised that she had made a hand print.
Once she had done 1 folded piece of paper I unfolded it and doubled it back on itself and then we both spread the finger paint between the pages. She then opened it up to view her butterfly that she had made.
Some of the butterflies really looked like butterflies when we opened them up others produced really interesting patterns. For a couple I outlined the butterfly in black pen and then we reread The Very Hungry Caterpillar and she kept pointing to her butterflies as we finished the book.
This is a blog hop – you can find out all about the blog hop here at Angelique Felix.com and see the calendar of posts below (Angelique’s site has an up to date list of the blog posts).
3rd september: http://kindergartenbasics.blogspot.com/
7th september: http://www.royalbaloo.co
10th september: www.thegoldengleam.com
14th september: http://Creativefamilyfun.com
17th september: www.solgave.com
21 th september: http://www.kitchencounterchronicle.com/
24th september: http://rainydaymum.co.uk
28th september: www.boymamateachermama.com
29th september: http://www.creativeplayhouse.com/
30 th september: http://www.gokidyourself.com/
1st october: http://www.kcedventures.com/blog
2nd october: http://jennifischer.blogspot.com
3rd october: http://www.wildlifefun4kids.com
4th october: ROUNDUP by Angelique Felix – The Magic Of Play
We would love for you to to come and link up your posts to celebrate Children and Animals at the linky below
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This is beautiful and LOVE the Linky Party. So many great ideas to celebrate animals.
Susan Case recently posted..Show Me How! Book Review
Little hands creating and having fun! What a good idea to do with your little girl.
And Agree with Susan, the linky is wonderful!
Angelique
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Nawww, this is lovely. Such a great simple activity to get the kids into butterflies (not hard for my girls, they LOVE butterflies). I love messy play too!
Such fun, messy, creative play! Butterflies rock
Danya Banya recently posted..Sweet Strawberry Lovin’
oooh great fun. H would love that. xx
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Awe, so cute. Made me smile.
Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty! Off to pin.
Maggy
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This butterfly idea is lovely!
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