Materials needed:
Foam sheets
Foam Brushes
Cup / Bowl of Water
Towels
Windows or Glass Sliding Doors
With the foam sheets, cut them into fun shapes
Here the pictures that will explain it better!
With the foam brushes have the child paint the glass, then have the child place the foam shapes on the water - viola they stick! Easy clean up - plus my glass doors got cleaned while they played!
Then they placed the foam shapes in the foam sheet that the shapes came out of. Plus my 6 year old made up a game to play with his 3 year old brother, matching colors, etc.
Plus they are re-usable, let them dry and use again!
Actually I cut some animal foam shapes over a year ago and gave them to my kids to play with in the bath tub where they stuck them to the tile on the wall of the tub.
28 comments:
I've cut fun-foam shapes for the tub, but never thought about a window activity. That could be a great story extender!
Cool ideas ! perfect for summer :) Following on GFC from Friday blog hop, Feel free to hop by my blog when you get a chance.
That's a great idea!
That is a very fun idea, I have plenty of foam lying around to try this!
Love this - you could change the shapes for any theme. Thanks for sharing
Amanda at http://theeducatorsspinonit.blogspot.com/
Awesome idea! We will be doing this today!
Fun idea! We'll definitely be trying this.
fun & i like how they turned it into a matching game and/or puzzle too!
Wanted to extend an invite to link up to the Sunday Showcase (open thru Thurs) you always have such great kid friendly ideas here - would love for you to share some on the linky.
This week's linky - http://momto2poshlildivas.blogspot.com/2011/07/sunday-showcase-kid-friendly-linky.html
Bernadette
Thanks so much for linking up to Made by Little Hands Monday!! I appreciate it! I loved this so much I featured it this week so come by my blog tomorrow evening and check it out!
Thanks again!
Michelle
www.delicateconstruction.blogspot.com
Great idea! We too have foam shapes for the tub but I never thought to let the boys stick them on our sliders. Thanks for linking to Montessori Monday. :)
Love it! We bought our son some foam shapes for the bathtub and they stick to the sides and my son loves it. I never thought about using them to play outside of the bath. We have a big bay window in our living room and this would work great.
Wow, you have such great ideas, Nicole!
Great idea for the summer!!
What a great idea! These are just too creative.
What great ideas! I can't wait to try these with the kids :)
We use them in the tub, but be sure to not leave them sitting otherwise the color will bleed & you need to get a magic eraser out.
That's an AWESOME idea!!! WAY better then finger painting the glass with sticky fingers =)
what a cool idea! love your blog too! Homeschooling is great. I homeschooled my girls until HS. was great!
Such a fun idea! We have some Foam ABC's that i let my kids play with in the bathtub. When my boys were little, they used to do the same thing, but put the ABC's on the Wall of the bath tub. They stuck there too! lol. So they would write out a bunch of different words or just have them all jumbled together.
I think my daughter would love to have some Foam animals as soon as she's old enough to understand you can't "eat" them! lol.
I'm sooooo going to do this Nicole! This will be so much fun for both my 21 month old and 5 year old! Pinning this to remind myself to shop for foam sheets!!
Now I can get my 2.5 yo to clean her fingerprints off the glass doors...genius!
What a great game for a day when the weather is not so nice and the kids have to stay inside to play. Gives them something new to do and interact with. FUN!
awww I love that to bad I dont really have any place at this hours for them to use it
I'be scared to try this - but it does look cool
Looks like a great Idea! and quality time with the kiddos is always a +
What a great idea, I love that it's mess free. My kids are like little tornado's so anything with little to no cleanup is a win in my book
Fabulous idea. Esp on cold days when the condensation is on the glass screen door. Love that cleanup is a cinch too
Thanks for allowing me here to say my reaction/comment, but all I can say is this blogsite shows that using interior glass doors is good for the sake of children.
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Nicole, the mama behind the Mama to 5 Blessings blog, is a mom to 5 children. Three boys: ages 8 years, 5 years, 2 years, a daughter 4 years and a new baby girl born April 19th 2013. She has been married to her husband Fritz for 11 years. Here at Mama to 5 Blessings you will find quite a variety of topics: recipes, crafts for moms and children, homeschooling, parenting, reviews and giveaways, thrifty tips and much more! Mama to 5 Blessings can also be found on Twitter @mamato3blessing, Facebook and Pinterest.