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Collaborative spring flower painting

12/04/2011 by Cathy James 30 Comments

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. 

 

Gorgeous collaborative project - spring flower craft painting

Collaborative spring flower painting: large scale art

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We used a big roll of wallpaper to make a large scale collaborative piece of art. This kind of art is great as a wall display, or as the backdrop for a puppet show or play landscape.
 
flower painting craft
 
We cut some grass shapes in dish-washing scrubbing pads to make some stamps to create grass.
 
spring flower meadow printing
 
The girls used paint brushes to add stalks, then sketched their flowers with pencil and painted them in.
 
spring flower craft using paint
Once dry, the finished art work makes a beautiful mural but also a great backdrop for play.
 
collaborative spring art project

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!}

 

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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.

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Filed Under: All Crafts, Gardening, Painting, Small world play

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Comments

  1. Centers and Circle Time says

    12/04/2011 at 6:44 pm

    Aww, they did such a wonderful job!

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    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      13/04/2011 at 10:56 am

      Thanks Centers and Circle Time – they’ll be delighted you like it 🙂

      Reply
  2. Natalie says

    13/04/2011 at 2:12 am

    This really looks amazing – what an interesting idea to use scrub sponges for grass prints.

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    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      13/04/2011 at 10:53 am

      Thanks Natalie – I think children love it when when they can make something *big*!

      Reply
  3. Melissa @ The Chocolate Muffin Tree says

    13/04/2011 at 3:49 am

    GORGEOUS flowers! Thanks for all the great comments on each posting! They made my day!

    Reply
    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      13/04/2011 at 10:53 am

      Melissa – It’s always a pleasure to visit and see your fab ideas 🙂

      Reply
  4. maggy, red ted art says

    13/04/2011 at 10:47 am

    I 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

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    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      13/04/2011 at 10:52 am

      Thanks Maggy – I love that photo too. Lovely to see them side by side, creating 🙂

      Reply
  5. Kerri says

    13/04/2011 at 12:47 pm

    Very good idea to use the sponges in that manner. Love how it turned out!

    Reply
    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      13/04/2011 at 1:36 pm

      Thanks Kerri!

      Reply
  6. Anna says

    14/04/2011 at 9:12 pm

    I 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!

    Reply
    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      14/04/2011 at 9:28 pm

      Anna – I agree, so often we just give A4 sized paper. It’s good to remember to change things about.

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  7. Homeschool Escapade says

    15/04/2011 at 12:03 pm

    visiting from preschool croner – love the creativness. I know a couple of girls who would spend hours playing with this.
    Thanks:)

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  8. amber says

    15/04/2011 at 6:22 pm

    Great job and the flowers looks so pretty with your bunnies.

    Reply
    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      15/04/2011 at 6:42 pm

      Thanks amber 🙂

      Reply
  9. Scott says

    16/04/2011 at 12:29 am

    I love the flower meadow. (And the rabbits are pretty cool, too!)

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    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      16/04/2011 at 6:39 pm

      Thanks for stopping by Scott 🙂

      Reply
  10. Ren Lady Of The Arts says

    16/04/2011 at 12:43 am

    These 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.

    Reply
    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      16/04/2011 at 6:40 pm

      Hi Ren, my two like cooking with play mais – anything to get messy really!

      Reply
  11. Lindsay @ BytesOfMemory says

    17/04/2011 at 12:59 pm

    Very cute! I love the bunnies out in front of the flowers 🙂

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    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      17/04/2011 at 1:36 pm

      Thanks Lindsay!

      Reply
  12. Mandy says

    17/04/2011 at 3:46 pm

    We 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!

    Reply
    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      17/04/2011 at 4:16 pm

      Hi Mandy – you’ll have to share a photo with us when you’ve made it!

      Reply
  13. Julia Skinner says

    17/04/2011 at 6:36 pm

    What a great activity for the RC! Thank you so much for linking because it goes across quite an age range!
    Julia

    Reply
    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      17/04/2011 at 6:48 pm

      A pleasure, Julia. 🙂

      Reply
  14. creativejewishmom/Sara says

    21/04/2011 at 5:13 pm

    love this, a great project any time! thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling Sunday!

    Reply
    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      21/04/2011 at 7:56 pm

      Thanks Sara – hope you’re having a great passover celebration.

      Reply
  15. Rashmie @MommyLabs says

    25/07/2011 at 8:20 pm

    This is so beautiful, Cathy. And, love the collaboration between the girls. Thank you for sharing on my blog.

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  16. Susan Call Hutchison says

    03/03/2013 at 12:38 am

    The 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.

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    • Cathy James says

      05/03/2013 at 12:16 pm

      Popsicle sticks would be great to turn them into puppets Susan. Thanks for the lovely feedback! 🙂

      Reply

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