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.
Arts and crafts exploring 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 activity.
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.
More glue activities to try
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