simply fill 3/4 containers with food colouring and water. Fold tissue/kitchen roll and place it dipped between two colours. Watch as the colours mix and learn a little about absorption.

so beautiful yet so simple, by giving white flowers water with food colouring mixed in it allows you to see the 'drinking' process of the flower and has stunning results. Kids of all ages an appreciate

I've created a slightly different from of 'rocking' which instead of any decorated rocks hidden, I've decorated them with the YouTube play symbol and added a vegan channel name to each. This will hopefully

drawing on tissue paper with pen and watching the colours run when water is added is great fun. Children are naturally inquisitive any small opportunities like this are great to encourage their exploration

for those of you who haven't heard about this trend rocking is decorating rocks and leaving them places for others to find and re hide to continue the fun. Alot of areas up and down the UK have Facebook

beautifully simple technique providing great fun for children and adults alike. Today we used white oil pastel to draw onto the paper, this is particularly fun as when painting over with watercolour the

partner made us some homemade falafels and dam they were good, so filling and nutritious.

so I had a top lying around that I'd been bought, but it had some odd sleeves that just weren't to my taste. So I decided to take my scissors to said top and not only is that improved (sorry no photos)

this lovely picture was cut of some excess packaging on a game we'd bought. I don't know about anyone else, but particularly with children's toys the amount of packaging seems to be entirely unnecessary.

today I used some old juggling scalfs to make a rainbow skirt. It just took a little sewing and tying a few knots. I sewed the skirt in place to a pair of shorts underneath, but you could skip that all

coloured bubble mix and coloured water. This has to be one of my favourites, it's a great way of exploring colour mixes, the amazement of mixing two entirely different colours to produce an entirely different

Rock stacks are great opportunity for improving gross motor skills in kids. Alot of people may be disappointed the local beach isn't beautifully sandy but pebble beaches can provide great fun.with a little

spent the afternoon enjoying sunshine and these lovely little guys company. Just too sweet.

figured I'd get my oil paints out tonight for a little mess around.

learning phonics is a very important skill that leads to confident reading. But of course most young children don't particularly want to sit and be told 'a is for apple' a million times. So get creative

not my usual sort of stuff at all, me and my partner did a little collaboration on this one. He produced the line drawing and I painted, he told me after he invisioned it as more of a face but i think

this is probably my all time favourite tonal drawing I did. It was a real challenge to capture the dust kicking up and the movement of the horses. Unfortunately this is the best quality photo I have as

for anyone who knows me they know I get very frustrated when people make the assumption that art is easy, that you're just born with it. This is the difference 5 years makes. We are all born with an inability

so I certainly have room to improve still, Im yet to meet an artist who doesn't feel that way. For me my favourite is tonal drawing, there's something beautiful about using just pencils. One of my great

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