Art and Activity : Creative Play

LET'S PLAY!

 

 



Here's what we need to begin: 

A large blue sheet of foam

A large green foam sheet, cut in half with 'hills' or 'mountains'.

A variety pack of smaller foam sheets.

A pack of foam animal stickers.

Scissors. 

And a kid.



 

 Cut one of the brown foam sheets into small rectangles to use for paths.  A sheet of any of the colors can be cut to make 'houses', 'buildings', 'shelters' - whatever you want.  Clouds are cut from a white foam sheet.  The sun, trees, grass, and of course the animals came in the pack. 

Zachary put some of the animals on the clouds.  He also discovered that the punch-out smiles of the suns were the perfect size and shape to provide bananas for the monkeys!

You can use the stickers without removing the backs if you want to do this as a regular activity.  Even when the backing is removed, the stickers can be un-stuck and used again somewhere else without damage to them or to the foam sheets. 

 Another use for the smaller foam sheets:  hands and feet traced and cut out make great puzzles; any shape can be used, of course

 

 More cutting of the variety pack of foam sheets produced waves, a boat with sails, fish (although I suppose you could find fish packs), and a shore.