Painting Babies

Exploring paint, for babies, is sometimes an unexpected sensation that they either enjoy or find a little unusual. For our babies at Happy Steps our most recent paint exploration session was met with both excitement and trepidation.

At first we gave the babies a variety of pumpkins with a small amount of paint and let them explore. 

As the babies became more familiar with the feel of the paint and the new sensation they were exploring we added more colours to the canvas. 

One of the babies really enjoyed exploring and he spent time manipulating the paint not only on the canvas but on the surrounding wall coverings too. 

This baby enjoyed the sensation of the paint on his skin and fully emerged himself in the experience for 45 minutes. 

The whole nursery observed this session with many of the older children keen to join in. Our next creative me session will involve the older children exploring the paints in a similar way to develop new knowledge and skills based around the investigation of art materials using senses and the world around us.