Month: March 2021

With Home-schooling coming to an end, Mothers Day and Easter fast approaching, we have created downloadable activity sheets and cards for your little ones to make, create and paint. We want to encourage children to spread the love by getting creative with their Little Brian Paint Sticks, and giving their artwork to the special people below.

As home-schooling is coming to an end, it is the perfect chance for children to give their thanks to ‘Teachers’. Whether this is their actual school teachers who have taught with remote lesson planning, Mum or Dad or both, or another family member who has helped with homeschooling. Plus, the key worker children who have been at school throughout so have seen their teachers every day.

All of the above deserve recognition for their ongoing support with education during this very surreal time. Download our designed ‘Thank You Card’ above, print and give them to your children to paint and create. They can choose who they would like to give their thanks too- they may even want to thank more than one person so may end up creating a few thank you cards!

For Mothers Day this year Sunday 14^th March, encourage your children to create something special for their loved ones. Painting a card for Mum, Grandmothers, Aunties, maybe even special neighbours (the elderly who are isolating), and the loved ones who children can’t visit during lockdown. Download our Mothers Day card above, print and give them to your little ones to paint and create for all of the motherly figures in their lives.

With Easter fast approaching, why not get into the Easter spirit early and begin Easter crafting with the children. We have created an Easter themed activity painting sheet, simply let your little ones unleash their creativity with their Paint Sticks and bring their Easter activity to life!

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Please do not forget to tag us in all of your children’s creations. Please feel free to share this blog onto your Social Media to spread the word and have your friends and families children spreading the love too.

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Here at Little Learners, there’s nothing we love more than incorporating Little Brian Paint Sticks into our messy play and mark making activities.

If you have used Little Brian Paint Sticks before, you will know the mark making and learning opportunities are endless and if you haven’t…well you need to know! As a mum of two toddlers who LOVE to colour create and make their mark, I have always found art and craft activities a little daunting. For someone who runs a messy play business for babies and young children I have to admit I’m a bit of a scaredy cat when it comes to messy play and painting activities in my house (which once sat like a show home in my single days…little did I know)! When I joined the Little Learners team I discovered Little Brian Paint Sticks and heard so many wonderful things about them. What can I say, they were the best investment for us and are used daily in our activities.

From the boys’ perspective they are so easy to grip and control as they are chunky. As their fine motor skills and hand dexterity are still very much developing it doesn’t take a huge amount of pressure to make a mark and they glide so easily across the medium you are using. The best part for me as a mum? … They are so easy to clean and tidy up and they literally have endless uses for learning activities.

As my boys approach their second birthday the teacher in me is always looking for learning opportunities to challenge them. Our focus lately has been recognising colours so I wanted to introduce colour sorting and matching into the mix. Like many other parents right now I am always on the look out for new activities we can do as we stay home. I’ve come up with a few colour sorting and matching activities that can be made using household recycling. I always try to find a balance between buying educational games and activities and making them ourselves. As they grow I think it’s so important to involve them in their learning and make them responsible learners. They both helped me to make the activities which I find helps their language development and understanding, and over time this has definitely impacted their ability to follow instructions.

Colour Ring Toss

What you will need:

Paper plates, toilet roll or kitchen roll tubes, sellotape or glue, Little Brian Paint Sticks.

Benefits:

Hand-eye co-ordination, colour recognition, colour sorting and matching, fine and gross motor skills development.