If you saw our Easter bunny craft idea last week you might have noticed they were living in a beautiful flower meadow. Here’s how the children did some collaborative spring flower painting to make the bunnies a home.Â
Collaborative spring flower painting: large scale art
We cut some grass shapes in dish-washing scrubbing pads to make some stamps to create grass.
The girls used paint brushes to add stalks, then sketched their flowers with pencil and painted them in.
We stuck our flower meadow to two sides of a cardboard box to make a home for our Easter bunnies. {Click through to see how to make the Easter bunny craft!}
It’s great to sometimes up-scale children’s painting to a bigger size and wonderful for kids to collaborate to produce a group work of art.
What play landscape could you paint this week?
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Centers and Circle Time says
12/04/2011 at 6:44 pmAww, they did such a wonderful job!
Cathy @ NurtureStore says
13/04/2011 at 10:56 amThanks Centers and Circle Time – they’ll be delighted you like it 🙂
Natalie says
13/04/2011 at 2:12 amThis really looks amazing – what an interesting idea to use scrub sponges for grass prints.
Cathy @ NurtureStore says
13/04/2011 at 10:53 amThanks Natalie – I think children love it when when they can make something *big*!
Melissa @ The Chocolate Muffin Tree says
13/04/2011 at 3:49 amGORGEOUS flowers! Thanks for all the great comments on each posting! They made my day!
Cathy @ NurtureStore says
13/04/2011 at 10:53 amMelissa – It’s always a pleasure to visit and see your fab ideas 🙂
maggy, red ted art says
13/04/2011 at 10:47 amI love the photo of your girls hard at work and concentrating – that captures the whole activity for me.. How lovely! 🙂 Love the final result too and great idea for the “grass”…
Thanks for linking up to Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
Cathy @ NurtureStore says
13/04/2011 at 10:52 amThanks Maggy – I love that photo too. Lovely to see them side by side, creating 🙂
Kerri says
13/04/2011 at 12:47 pmVery good idea to use the sponges in that manner. Love how it turned out!
Cathy @ NurtureStore says
13/04/2011 at 1:36 pmThanks Kerri!
Anna says
14/04/2011 at 9:12 pmI LOVE how you cut the sponges to make the grass shape and that they worked on such a large scale. I think we often forget to change the scale and shape/ texture of what they are working on, and it makes such a difference doesn’t it? Thanks so much for linking to It’s Playtime. I feel honoured that you shared your ideas with us!
Cathy @ NurtureStore says
14/04/2011 at 9:28 pmAnna – I agree, so often we just give A4 sized paper. It’s good to remember to change things about.
Homeschool Escapade says
15/04/2011 at 12:03 pmvisiting from preschool croner – love the creativness. I know a couple of girls who would spend hours playing with this.
Thanks:)
amber says
15/04/2011 at 6:22 pmGreat job and the flowers looks so pretty with your bunnies.
Cathy @ NurtureStore says
15/04/2011 at 6:42 pmThanks amber 🙂
Scott says
16/04/2011 at 12:29 amI love the flower meadow. (And the rabbits are pretty cool, too!)
Cathy @ NurtureStore says
16/04/2011 at 6:39 pmThanks for stopping by Scott 🙂
Ren Lady Of The Arts says
16/04/2011 at 12:43 amThese projects look like so much fun- My monkeys like to ‘cook’ the little pills that turn into sponge animals and then we use them to paint with.
Cathy @ NurtureStore says
16/04/2011 at 6:40 pmHi Ren, my two like cooking with play mais – anything to get messy really!
Lindsay @ BytesOfMemory says
17/04/2011 at 12:59 pmVery cute! I love the bunnies out in front of the flowers 🙂
Cathy @ NurtureStore says
17/04/2011 at 1:36 pmThanks Lindsay!
Mandy says
17/04/2011 at 3:46 pmWe rolled out the big paper this week too! My daughter just saw your post and agreed that we should try this flower meadow project too!
Cathy @ NurtureStore says
17/04/2011 at 4:16 pmHi Mandy – you’ll have to share a photo with us when you’ve made it!
Julia Skinner says
17/04/2011 at 6:36 pmWhat a great activity for the RC! Thank you so much for linking because it goes across quite an age range!
Julia
Cathy @ NurtureStore says
17/04/2011 at 6:48 pmA pleasure, Julia. 🙂
creativejewishmom/Sara says
21/04/2011 at 5:13 pmlove this, a great project any time! thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling Sunday!
Cathy @ NurtureStore says
21/04/2011 at 7:56 pmThanks Sara – hope you’re having a great passover celebration.
Rashmie @MommyLabs says
25/07/2011 at 8:20 pmThis is so beautiful, Cathy. And, love the collaboration between the girls. Thank you for sharing on my blog.
Susan Call Hutchison says
03/03/2013 at 12:38 amThe bunnies in the field look like they are on stage, about to start a puppet show. A Popsicle stick might turn them into puppets. And what a fun project, to improvise or write out a play. Your blog is AWESOME.
Cathy James says
05/03/2013 at 12:16 pmPopsicle sticks would be great to turn them into puppets Susan. Thanks for the lovely feedback! 🙂