Things to Make - Toddler Art - Googly-Eyed Monsters

On our last trip to the Playseum (have you been yet? we love it there) the art instructor taught us a cool trick - let your toddler (is a 3 year old still considered a toddler?) paint and paint and paint. Once his/her artwork dries bring out some googly eyes (like these) and let your toddler attach them onto his/her artwork. All of a sudden a big blob looks like a creature worthy of framing. Plus, it's a super easy way to have younger children help decorate for Halloween. Monsters everywhere = scary awesomeness.

And for another fun idea regarding "toddler art" - check out this past post on the toddler art hidden picture game.

HAPPY TUESDAY EVERYONE! I hope all of you in the US had a great three day weekend.

Things to Make - Toddler-Designed Hidden Pictures

Lately, T can't stop doodling/drawing/writing on anything he can find (yes, this includes walls). I left a pad of decent-quality watercolor paper on the table and within minutes he marked up every page (much to my chagrin). We're going through paper like crazy around here. So the girls and I created a game to make use of T's many beautiful drawings - we search for hidden pictures. Sometimes the girls find things and I color them in and sometimes the girls color things in themselves. It's actually pretty fun and T seems amused by it all.

If you don't have access to a toddler, you could also try a version where you cover your eyes or you cover the kids' eyes and ask them to draw things and then try to find hidden pictures. Or maybe try drawing with your wrong hand. or with your toes. whatever works. basically, just make some scribbles and decode. How fun is that?



I was pretty impressed by F's finds. P went for the landscape route.



Sometimes we don't try to find anything at all, we just color in the lines - like a coloring book.