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.
Collaborative spring flower painting: large scale art
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.
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.
Once dry, the finished art work makes a beautiful mural but also a great backdrop for play.
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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Aww, they did such a wonderful job!
Thanks Centers and Circle Time – they’ll be delighted you like it 🙂
This really looks amazing – what an interesting idea to use scrub sponges for grass prints.
Thanks Natalie – I think children love it when when they can make something *big*!
GORGEOUS flowers! Thanks for all the great comments on each posting! They made my day!
Melissa – It’s always a pleasure to visit and see your fab ideas 🙂
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
Thanks Maggy – I love that photo too. Lovely to see them side by side, creating 🙂
Very good idea to use the sponges in that manner. Love how it turned out!
Thanks Kerri!
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!
Anna – I agree, so often we just give A4 sized paper. It’s good to remember to change things about.
visiting from preschool croner – love the creativness. I know a couple of girls who would spend hours playing with this.
Thanks:)
Great job and the flowers looks so pretty with your bunnies.
Thanks amber 🙂
I love the flower meadow. (And the rabbits are pretty cool, too!)
Thanks for stopping by Scott 🙂
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.
Hi Ren, my two like cooking with play mais – anything to get messy really!
Very cute! I love the bunnies out in front of the flowers 🙂
Thanks Lindsay!
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!
Hi Mandy – you’ll have to share a photo with us when you’ve made it!
What a great activity for the RC! Thank you so much for linking because it goes across quite an age range!
Julia
A pleasure, Julia. 🙂
love this, a great project any time! thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling Sunday!
Thanks Sara – hope you’re having a great passover celebration.
This is so beautiful, Cathy. And, love the collaboration between the girls. Thank you for sharing on my blog.
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.
Popsicle sticks would be great to turn them into puppets Susan. Thanks for the lovely feedback! 🙂