Glue is a wonderful sensory material for children to explore, and a springboard into all sorts of art, making and experiments. Take a look at our glue activities, and join in with the play.
Top 10 things to do with glue
If you’re already masters of glue sticks, try some runny glue as a contrast – giving your children a different variation to explore and link to what they already know about glue sticks.
Think more about the process of the art here, rather than having a definite end result in mind.
Let them scoop and pour and spread the glue, with no real focus on how it turns out.
The idea is find out about glue: what it looks like, how it moves, how it feels.
And then when they’re a little older the can start to explore how to use a glue gun.
Glue resist art
My girls decided they wanted to try some glue resist art for today’s Simple Play fun.
They’re painting patterns and swirls using PVA/craft glue, and when they’re dry we’ll wash over with waterpaint, and see what happens. (I’ll add a photo of the end result when we’re done).
More glue activities to try
For more ideas on how you could explore glue with your child, you might like to…
Make your own rainbow coloured glue.
Try a combination of glue + salt + paint.
Or glue + tin foil + tissue paper.
Explore texture with a paper collage or a lentil collage.
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