Well summer holidays has officially started for us and that means no more nursery for Sophie, so i need to think of lots of things to keep her stimulated, and this project has worked out fine taking 4 days to compleate
We thought we would brighten up the play room with some flying funky fish made out of paper mache and its a good hands on mucky activity that Sophie can really get into.
First off she loved mixing up a big batch of PVA and water and we ripped up an old newspaper and got sticking a few layers onto a balloon to make the fish shape.
We left these to dry out in the conservatory as it is nice and warm and the next day covered them all over again with ripped up white paper and again left these to fully dry to get strong and hard.
Once dry we made them all wet again with more PVA and water mix and layered tissue paper all over the shapes making one blue and the other one pink and then added cut up squares of decorative deco patch paper to make them pretty these were left again to get fully dry in a nice warm room.
Now even more fun was bringing our coloured blobs to life by making a fishy tail and fins and embellishing the bodies a little further now we have two new funky fishy friends flying around in the play room
Helen these are super adorable!
ReplyDeleteThank you Sonia was fun to for soph they look better in real life the photos don't do them justice.
ReplyDeleteThey look great! Something to try over the summer holidays definitely :)
ReplyDeleteYes I liked this project as it took days to complete and something to look forward to doing each day for Sophie
ReplyDeleteVery impressive, I wish we were getting so creative, our day is mainly stop both the boys fighting each other, whilst trying to squeeze in other activities lol! x
ReplyDeletelol K your boys keep you busy
ReplyDeleteThis looks like so much fun, will save this activity for a rainy day.
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