{"id":975,"date":"2014-11-19T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/19\/cotton-wool-ball-butterflies-2\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:06:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:06:31","slug":"cotton-wool-ball-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/cotton-wool-ball-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Wool Ball Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a><\/p>\n I cut out some butterfly templates ahead of the session and added a splodge of red, yellow and blue paint to three individual paper plates. This was to discourageBella from moving straight onto the colour mixing part of the activity. Instead of brushes we used cotton wool balls clipped onto pegs.\u00a0\u00a0Bella is not quite able to open pegs up herself yet, but had her brothers being doing this activity as well, it would have been a great lesson for strengthening on their fine motor skills.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n For the second part of the activity I took the plate with\u00a0the red paint on and added a splodge of yellow paint. I then encouraged Bella\u00a0to mix the two together using the cotton wool ball on the peg again.\u00a0 <\/span>She was a little reluctant at first, so I\u00a0started to mix the paint for her, which ofcourse then made her want to take\u00a0over. \u201cLook mummy orange,\u201d she told me as the two colours merged together.\u00a0 <\/span>We then added a yellow splodge to the blue\u00a0paint and she was much more eager to mix this time. This created a lovely green\u00a0coloured paint. She then got stuck into her new colours to decorate some more\u00a0butterfly pictures in the same way.<\/p>\n