No, I'm not totally obsessed with butterflies / Eric Carle! I wanted a really simple activity I could do at the Childminding Group along this theme. Although the butterflies we already created looked fab, they were never going to work with 20+ children ranging in age from 6m - 4 years in 2 hours. So I decided to simplify the process and print straight onto the butterfly templates. I got my guinea pigs (oops I mean children) to work!
First I got them to pick a colour to paint the butterfly with. I needed to restrict the amount of paint they used, otherwise I could predict our butterflies ending up that horrible purply brown colour. So I thought one way of doing this might be to paint using our hands, which of course they were more than happy to oblige. This generated lots of giggles as the paint was 'cold and tickly'.
Once we had the majority of the butterfly covered, I got them to select another colour. Again the idea should be to select contrasting colours, but I wanted to allow the children as much freedom as possible during the activity. This time they used their brushes to make big marks on the paper, again needing encouragement to avoid focusing only on the centre of the paper.
They then got to pick the resource they would like to use for printing and selected another colour. We stuck to the ones we had used for the other butterfly activity - stickle brick, duplo brick, carpet square and cardboard tube.
Here are our finished butterflies. Hmmm not bad and much quicker to do!
Links to EYFS:
CLL: Language for Communication (following instructions)
CLL: Handwriting (making lines across the paper with the paint)
PD: Using Equipment and Materials (using equipment, developing hand / eye coordination)
CD: Exploring Media and Materials (differentiating colours, creating collages)
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